Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .529          
    Onset .649 .635 0.022 .000
    Coda .737 .631 0.168 .000
    Coda / Onset     7.619  
No .585          
    Onset .705 .689 0.023 .000
    Coda .748 .671 0.115 .000
    Coda / Onset     4.942  
CVC Words Only
Yes .559          
    Onset .663 .652 0.017 .018
    Coda .719 .646 0.113 .000
    Coda / Onset     6.698  
No .619          
    Onset .724 .706 0.025 .001
    Coda .740 .698 0.060 .000
    Coda / Onset     2.360  


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