Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .647          
    Onset .798 .695 0.148 .000
    Coda .903 .695 0.299 .000
    Coda / Onset     2.019  
No .730          
    Onset .865 .769 0.125 .000
    Coda .912 .764 0.194 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.552  
CVC Words Only
Yes .708          
    Onset .859 .745 0.153 .000
    Coda .910 .744 0.223 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.458  
No .786          
    Onset .909 .812 0.119 .000
    Coda .923 .811 0.138 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.156  


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