Encyclopedia of Distances by Michel Marie Deza & Elena Deza

Author:Michel Marie Deza & Elena Deza
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

Sonority distance effect

People in warm-climate cultures spend more time outdoors and engage, on average, in more distal oral communication. So, such populations have greater sonority (audibility) of their phoneme inventory. Munroe et al., 1996 and 2009, observed that speakers in such languages use more simple consonant-vowel syllables, vowels and sonorant (say, nasal “n”, “m” rather than obstruents as “t”, “g”) consonants.

Ember and Ember, 2007, found that number of cold months, as well as the combination of cold climate and sparse vegetation, predicts less sonority. Larger average distance of the baby from its caregivers, as well as higher frequency of premarital and extramarital sex predicts more sonority.

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