Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .975          
    Vowel .992 .978 0.014 .000
    Coda .988 .980 0.008 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.754  
No .976          
    Vowel .993 .980 0.013 .000
    Coda .988 .981 0.007 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.859  
CVC Words Only
Yes .965          
    Vowel .990 .970 0.021 .000
    Coda .980 .970 0.010 .000
    Vowel / Coda     2.000  
No .967          
    Vowel .990 .972 0.019 .000
    Coda .981 .972 0.009 .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