Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .854          
    Onset .936 .933 0.003 .240
    Vowel .970 .902 0.075 .000
No .840          
    Onset .930 .927 0.003 .260
    Vowel .967 .892 0.084 .000
CVC Words Only
Yes .817          
    Onset .899 .899 0.000 .486
    Vowel .967 .883 0.095 .000
No .803          
    Onset .891 .890 0.001 .448
    Vowel .965 .874 0.104 .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