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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear Corpora colleagues, Is it possible to use
the coefficient of variation to study the variation of the occurrence of speech
sounds? I study language variation on phonetic and semantic level. I mean I
research how the speech souns vary in different languages from the point of view
of their occurrence. That is, how many particular phonemes occur in this or that
world language. I studied the occurrence of phonemes in the speech chain of some
300 world languages. However, in every language speech sound chain the element
vary. I study their variation with the help of the coefficient of variation. I
wonder if I could compare my results to some other results of this sort. Who
studies the variation of the occurrence speech sounds in different
languages now? Or is it not in fashion any more? It was very fashionable in the
1960-1970. The other question is if it is all right to use the coefficient of
variation to study the occurrence of speech sounds? Looking forward to your
advice to <A href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Yours
sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev </FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>