Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .921          
    Vowel .958 .947 0.012 .001
    Coda .954 .960 -0.006 .930
No .922          
    Vowel .962 .949 0.014 .001
    Coda .953 .959 -0.006 .933
CVC Words Only
Yes .903          
    Vowel .951 .939 0.013 .018
    Coda .935 .942 -0.007 .918
No .904          
    Vowel .957 .942 0.016 .006
    Coda .936 .943 -0.007 .891


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