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Are small languages more or less complex than big ones?

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https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2011.012
Correspondence address: Institutionen för lingvistik, Stockholms universitet, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
Received: 2011-06-01
Revised: 2011-07-16
Published Online: 2011-11-22
Published in Print: 2011-November

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Volume 15 Issue 2

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How plausible is the hypothesis that population size and dispersal are related to phoneme inventory size? Introducing and commenting on a debate
Social structure and phoneme inventories
Does phoneme inventory size correlate with population size?
Are small languages more or less complex than big ones?
Phonological diversity, word length, and population sizes across languages: The ASJP evidence
Phonemic diversity and the out-of-Africa theory
Out of Africa? The logic of phoneme inventories and founder effects
On phonemic diversity and the origin of language in Africa
A pilot study for an investigation into Atkinson's hypothesis
Athabaskan languages and serial founder effects
The many origins of diversity and complexity in phonology
Geographical distribution of phonological complexity
Mixed effect models for genetic and areal dependencies in linguistic typology
Linking spatial patterns of language variation to ancient demography and population migrations
Call for debate re word-order universals
The evidence for word order correlations
Stability of word order: Even simple questions need careful answers
Computational methods are invaluable for typology, but the models must match the questions
Statistical modeling of language universals
Understanding transition probabilities
Greenbergian universals, diachrony, and statistical analyses
Where's diachrony?
The interplay between Universal Grammar, universals, and lineage specificity
Non-arguments about non-universals
Complementing quantitative typology with behavioral approaches: Evidence for typological universals
Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families
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