is seen as the key step in reducing the necessity of lexical tone in spoken language.I am
indebted to Dr.Stephen Matthews for pointing out to me this putative trade-off between
lexical tone and segmental inventory size within languages.As this hypothesis demands the
existence of lesser rather than greater sophistication of the vocal tract for speech to occur
(fewer rather than more segments),it tends to support theories that call for the early emer-
gence of speech in hominids (see Frayer and Nicolay,this volume).
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