Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .859          
    Onset .940 .881 0.067 .000
    Vowel .972 .867 0.121 .000
    Vowel / Onset     1.808  
No .844          
    Onset .934 .869 0.075 .000
    Vowel .969 .854 0.135 .000
    Vowel / Onset     1.800  
CVC Words Only
Yes .824          
    Onset .905 .840 0.077 .000
    Vowel .970 .835 0.162 .000
    Vowel / Onset     2.089  
No .809          
    Onset .897 .826 0.086 .000
    Vowel .968 .821 0.179 .000
    Vowel / Onset     2.083  


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