Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .502          
    Onset .638 .529 0.206 .000
    Coda .726 .534 0.360 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.745  
No .559          
    Onset .695 .585 0.188 .000
    Coda .740 .584 0.267 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.421  
CVC Words Only
Yes .537          
    Onset .662 .558 0.186 .000
    Coda .716 .556 0.288 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.544  
No .601          
    Onset .727 .621 0.171 .000
    Coda .741 .619 0.197 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.155  


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