Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .509          
    Onset .721 .717 0.006 .346
    Coda .797 .697 0.143 .000
No .569          
    Onset .781 .765 0.021 .034
    Coda .818 .730 0.121 .000
    Coda / Onset     5.764  
CVC Words Only
Yes .580          
    Onset .768 .758 0.013 .169
    Coda .819 .736 0.113 .000
No .652          
    Onset .829 .811 0.022 .036
    Coda .851 .786 0.083 .000
    Coda / Onset     3.726  


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