Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .717          
    Onset .807 .806 0.001 .379
    Coda .920 .810 0.136 .000
No .809          
    Onset .882 .876 0.007 .010
    Coda .925 .872 0.061 .000
    Coda / Onset     8.874  
CVC Words Only
Yes .757          
    Onset .830 .837 -0.008 .922
    Coda .926 .843 0.098 .000
No .841          
    Onset .898 .895 0.003 .211
    Coda .932 .898 0.038 .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