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17 juin 2013
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haraldhammarstroem, « C. Everett's ejectives/altitude correlation is not significant », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/nssn
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I've now had a chance to take a closer look at Caleb Everett's recent PLoS ONE article on the correlation between ejective consonants and altitude, and I think the ejective distribution is explainable on purely classical grounds, that is, common inheritance and areal diffusion. That is, it is NOT necessary to resort to an explanation in terms of altitude. The classical explanation is preferable since the mechanisms of inheritance and diffusion are observable in plenty, whereas noone has yet ...