Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .975          
    Onset .988 .982 0.006 .000
    Vowel .989 .980 0.009 .000
    Vowel / Onset     1.503  
No .973          
    Onset .987 .980 0.007 .000
    Vowel .988 .978 0.010 .000
    Vowel / Onset     1.431  
CVC Words Only
Yes .966          
    Onset .987 .973 0.014 .000
    Vowel .984 .973 0.011 .000
    Onset / Vowel     1.273  
No .963          
    Onset .986 .970 0.016 .000
    Vowel .983 .970 0.013 .000
    Onset / Vowel     1.231  


1Whether words with postvocalic /r/ were included.
2Average conditional consistency across 10,000 permutations randomly reassigning the vowel between words.
3Increase of attested conditional consistency over permuted conditional consistency, as a proportion of the latter. Significance test is one-tailed and asymmetric.



Brett Kessler
2000-02-29