Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .980          
    Vowel .994 .984 0.010 .000
    Coda .994 .985 0.009 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.112  
No .981          
    Vowel .994 .986 0.008 .000
    Coda .993 .987 0.006 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.335  
CVC Words Only
Yes .976          
    Vowel .996 .980 0.016 .000
    Coda .991 .980 0.011 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.455  
No .980          
    Vowel .996 .984 0.012 .000
    Coda .990 .984 0.006 .000
    Vowel / Coda     2.000  


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