Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .910          
    Vowel .937 .926 0.012 .000
    Coda .942 .944 -0.002 .834
No .908          
    Vowel .938 .926 0.013 .000
    Coda .939 .942 -0.003 .872
CVC Words Only
Yes .873          
    Vowel .914 .899 0.017 .000
    Coda .909 .906 0.003 .147
No .870          
    Vowel .915 .897 0.020 .000
    Coda .906 .903 0.003 .162


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