Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .978          
    Onset .989 .995 -0.006 .994
    Vowel .990 .992 -0.002 .698
No .976          
    Onset .988 .994 -0.006 .995
    Vowel .989 .991 -0.002 .702
CVC Words Only
Yes .969          
    Onset .987 .991 -0.004 .847
    Vowel .987 .989 -0.002 .709
No .967          
    Onset .986 .990 -0.004 .846
    Vowel .986 .988 -0.002 .725


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