Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .979          
    Onset .990 .984 0.006 .000
    Vowel .989 .982 0.007 .000
    Vowel / Onset     1.169  
No .977          
    Onset .989 .982 0.007 .000
    Vowel .988 .980 0.008 .000
    Vowel / Onset     1.145  
CVC Words Only
Yes .969          
    Onset .985 .973 0.012 .000
    Vowel .984 .974 0.010 .000
    Onset / Vowel     1.201  
No .966          
    Onset .984 .971 0.013 .000
    Vowel .982 .972 0.010 .000
    Onset / Vowel     1.301  


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