Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .976          
    Vowel .993 .985 0.008 .000
    Coda .988 .989 -0.001 .879
No .977          
    Vowel .993 .987 0.006 .000
    Coda .988 .990 -0.002 .920
CVC Words Only
Yes .966          
    Vowel .991 .981 0.010 .000
    Coda .980 .982 -0.002 .811
No .968          
    Vowel .990 .982 0.008 .000
    Coda .981 .983 -0.002 .848


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