Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .688          
    Onset .790 .720 0.097 .000
    Coda .908 .725 0.252 .000
    Coda / Onset     2.596  
No .782          
    Onset .867 .807 0.074 .000
    Coda .914 .807 0.133 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.783  
CVC Words Only
Yes .730          
    Onset .823 .756 0.089 .000
    Coda .912 .759 0.202 .000
    Coda / Onset     2.275  
No .817          
    Onset .891 .835 0.067 .000
    Coda .920 .837 0.099 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.479  


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