[Corpora-List] the vocalo-sonorant quotient

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Yuri Tambovtsev wrote:

> The total of the frequency of occurrence of vowels and sonorant 
> consonants in the sound speech chain allows us to judge if this or that 
> language sounds melodically (musically).

 	Not my definition of musicality.  For example, I consider 
Brazilian Portuguese to be much more musical than Carribean Spanish, but 
I believe it allows more complex consonant clusters, and thus has less 
vowels and sonorants.  Tone contours are what make the difference for me.

 					-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
 					University of New Mexico
 					grvsmth at panix.com

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