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Speech adaptation and situational optimality.
Abstract
Language serves as a primary means of human adaptation. This paper critically examines attempts to identify certain phonological aspects of language systems as particularly adaptive. These postulate that the CV (consonant plus vowel) syllable is an optimum in speech adaptation to warm climates that encourage "distal communication." These attempts are shown to be over-simplistic, motivated by a model that stresses transmission but disregards speech differentiation. An alternative analysis is proposed that recognizes that speech adaptation must negotiate between transmission and differentiation factors.
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