Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .821          
    Onset .882 .889 -0.008 .994
    Vowel .925 .850 0.088 .000
No .809          
    Onset .873 .880 -0.008 .990
    Vowel .923 .838 0.101 .000
CVC Words Only
Yes .760          
    Onset .818 .822 -0.005 .819
    Vowel .910 .806 0.129 .000
No .743          
    Onset .806 .810 -0.005 .802
    Vowel .905 .793 0.141 .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