Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .668          
    Onset .806 .823 -0.021 .993
    Coda .911 .816 0.116 .000
No .753          
    Onset .872 .876 -0.005 .718
    Coda .918 .863 0.064 .000
CVC Words Only
Yes .724          
    Onset .858 .861 -0.003 .640
    Coda .915 .854 0.071 .000
No .801          
    Onset .907 .899 0.009 .184
    Coda .927 .892 0.039 .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