The Commonest Speech Sounds: Prevalence Rates for Phonemes of the World

This is a metadata record and mirror for an infographic and Open Educational Resource (OER) originally hosted on figshare. Follow the link below to access the original. The Commonest Speech Sounds: Prevalence Rates for Phonemes of the World Prevalence rates of speech-sounds across 1672 languages. Data from PHOIBLE Online. Colour scale indicates range from the listed percentage to the next higher percent. Latest version includes updated colours for more-effective lookup. A version of this figure first appeared in Styles SJ (2016) ‘Sensory worlds: Multisensory outcomes of sensory tuning to phoneme structure’ Presentation at the 5th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop, Bloemfontein, South Africa, November 2016. Full peer-reviewed report can be found in this open access journal article: Styles SJ & Gawne L (2017) 'When does maluma/takete fail? Two key failures and a meta-analysis suggest phonology and phonotactics matter' I-Perception. July-August. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669517724807 CC-BY Suzy J Styles (2017) DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5309953 Download The original infographic can be downloaded at: FigShare.