Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .982          
    Onset .992 .993 -0.001 .789
    Vowel .992 .990 0.002 .025
No .980          
    Onset .991 .992 -0.001 .799
    Vowel .991 .989 0.002 .026
CVC Words Only
Yes .972          
    Onset .987 .986 0.001 .367
    Vowel .986 .986 0.000 .372
No .970          
    Onset .986 .985 0.001 .385
    Vowel .985 .985 0.000 .364


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