Include Unconditional Conditional Consistency
/-r/1 Consistency Given Attested Permuted2 Improvement3 p
All Monosyllables
Yes .485          
    Onset .709 .535 0.325 .000
    Coda .783 .534 0.466 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.434  
No .543          
    Onset .767 .593 0.293 .000
    Coda .806 .583 0.383 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.304  
CVC Words Only
Yes .554          
    Onset .757 .589 0.285 .000
    Coda .808 .586 0.379 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.328  
No .628          
    Onset .819 .662 0.237 .000
    Coda .844 .657 0.285 .000
    Coda / Onset     1.200  


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