%0 Figure %A Styles, Suzy J %D 2017 %T The Commonest Speech Sounds: Prevalence Rates for Phonemes of the World %U https://figshare.com/articles/figure/The_Commonest_Speech_Sounds_Prevalence_Rates_for_Phonemes_of_the_World/5047747 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.5047747.v3 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8850754 %K Phonology %K Psycholinguistics %K WEIRD biases %K Phones %K IPA %K Phonemic Inventory %K Prevalence Rates %K Linguistics %K Language %K Psychology not elsewhere classified %X Prevalence rates of speech-sounds across 1672 languages. Data from PHOIBLE Online. Colour scale indicates range from the listed percentage to the next higher percent. Latest version includes updated colours for more-effective lookup.

A version of this figure first appeared in Styles SJ (2016) ‘Sensory worlds: Multisensory outcomes of sensory tuning to phoneme structure’ Presentation at the 5th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop, Bloemfontein, South Africa, November 2016.

Full peer-reviewed report can be found in this open access journal article: Styles SJ & Gawne L (2017) 'When does maluma/takete fail? Two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest phonology and phonotactics matter' I-Perception. July-August. 1-17.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/204166951772480
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Data source:
Moran, S., McCloy, D., & Wright, R. (2014). PHOIBLE Online. Retrieved 2016-10-06, from Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology http://phoible.org/
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