caa a22 4500 378893777 CHVBK 20180305123501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041020xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.376 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.376 Pericliev Vladimir 1. Bălgarska Akademija na Naukite. There is no correlation between the size of a community speaking a language and the size of the phonological inventory of that language [Elektronische Daten] [Vladimir Pericliev] In the target article, Trudgill assumes, based on the inspection of some Austronesian/Polynesian languages, that large community size favours medium-sized phonological inventories, whereas small community size favours either small phonological inventories or large inventories, and he then undertakes to explain these "facts”. A crosslinguistic empirical test, however, reveals conclusively that such assumptions are invalid and therefore Trudgill's explanation is fallacious in explaining a phenomenon that does not exist. © Walter de Gruyter Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure nationallicence Phonetics, phonology, prosody nationallicence phoneme inventories nationallicence social structure nationallicence Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 376-383 1430-0532 8:3<376 2004 8 lity https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.376 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.2004.8.3.376 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pericliev Vladimir 1. Bălgarska Akademija na Naukite NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistic Typology Walter de Gruyter 8/3(2004-10-20), 376-383 1430-0532 8:3<376 2004 8 lity CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter