[Corpora-List] sonirity profile at the beginning and end of the word

[Yuri Tambovtsev]

Dear Corpora colleagues, Thank you for your time and attention in advance. I use my corpora of 157  world languages to study phonetic phenomena in language in general, that is a sort of phonological universal. What is sonority profile in a language? I read in a book that sonority is greater at the end of the word. However, I have discovered it is not so simple. After computing about 30 languages I noticed that some languages really use the sonorant consonants like [m, r, l, n, etc.] more frequently than at the beginning of the word. These are usually Turkic languages.
 However, there are some languages whose sonority profile at the beginning of the word is greater. These are usually Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic languages. I am very interested in reading an article or a book which publish the data on the topic. I use math statistics in my studies of the frequency of occurrence phonemes in the speech sound chains of world languages.I'm modeling phonological typology from a cognitive perspective, I have been working on math linguistics now for some time. I'd like to find people who'd work on a joint project with me in the field of math linguistics and linguistic typology. Looking forward to hearing from you to my e-mail yutamb at hotmail.com Please, send all your e-mail messages to yutamb at hotmail.com since my other e-mail box does not work properly. Remain yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev 
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