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SUBMITTER: Dunbar E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4940385 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dunbar Ewan E Dupoux Emmanuel E
Frontiers in psychology 20160712
We investigate the idea that the languages of the world have developed coherent sound systems in which having one sound increases or decreases the chances of having certain other sounds, depending on shared properties of those sounds. We investigate the geometries of sound systems that are defined by the inherent properties of sounds. We document three typological tendencies in sound system geometries: economy, a tendency for the differences between sounds in a system to be definable on a relati ...[more]