Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .916          
    Vowel .954 .921 0.036 .000
    Coda .952 .928 0.026 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.385  
No .917          
    Vowel .958 .923 0.038 .000
    Coda .951 .928 0.025 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.530  
CVC Words Only
Yes .897          
    Vowel .946 .903 0.048 .000
    Coda .933 .905 0.031 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.539  
No .899          
    Vowel .951 .906 0.050 .000
    Coda .934 .908 0.029 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.735  


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