Re: THEORY: small inventories
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 20:04 |
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A Rosta wrote:
> Given the redefinition of the question, one does notice, say, that the
> places
> where speakers have to be phonetic acrobats or decathletes are rather
> inaccessible, like the Caucasus or Namibia
Well, again, what about Polynesia. AFAIK, the phonetic inventory isn't
much larger than the phonemic in most of those languages, yet the
islands tended to be pretty isolated from each other.
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