Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .914          
    Vowel .942 .917 0.027 .000
    Coda .944 .925 0.021 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.327  
No .913          
    Vowel .943 .917 0.028 .000
    Coda .941 .923 0.020 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.454  
CVC Words Only
Yes .882          
    Vowel .922 .887 0.039 .000
    Coda .915 .889 0.029 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.349  
No .880          
    Vowel .923 .885 0.043 .000
    Coda .913 .887 0.029 .000
    Vowel / Coda     1.465  


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