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LANGUAGE
Volume 83, Issue 2, Pages 388-400Publisher
LINGUISTIC SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2007.0071
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This short report investigates the relationship between population size and phoneme inventory size, and finds a surprisingly robust correlation between the two. The more speakers a language has, the bigger its phoneme inventory is likely to be. We show that this holds for both vowel inventories and consonant inventories. It is not an artifact of language family.*
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