Smith and Koutstaal (1969) obtained reports of the English words closest to Greenberg and Jenkins' (1964) List 1 CCVCs. The phonetic contrasts of the reported English words and the CCVCs were scaled on a phonetic contrast scale, PCS. The PCS values correlated .86 with the S values of the CCVCs and .88 with mean language distance judgments reported by Greenberg and Jenkins (1964). The hypothesis remains tenable that phonetic contrasts are another correlate of Greenberg and Jenkins' S scale.
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