Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .831          
    Onset .890 .851 0.046 .000
    Vowel .933 .838 0.113 .000
    Vowel / Onset     2.474  
No .819          
    Onset .880 .839 0.049 .000
    Vowel .930 .825 0.127 .000
    Vowel / Onset     2.604  
CVC Words Only
Yes .779          
    Onset .835 .792 0.054 .000
    Vowel .922 .788 0.170 .000
    Vowel / Onset     3.132  
No .762          
    Onset .823 .776 0.061 .000
    Vowel .917 .771 0.189 .000
    Vowel / Onset     3.127  


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