Table 6. Major frequency distribution of the codas of men and women in the Buckeye Corpus. The column head orth represents orthographic forms, while pron stands for the pronounced phonetic symbols of English consonants. n is the number of occurrences. m_n and w_n are the numbers of occurrences of men and women, respectively. Ø represents deletion.

Orth Pron m_n w_n Orth Pron m_n w_n Orth Pron m_n w_n
b b 203 149 nd n 3,368 3,882 rt rdx 125 101
ch ch 672 659 nd 793 636 rt 107 88
d d 3,242 3,160 nx 584 614 rtq 78 114
dx 730 744 Ø 1,691 1,245 rz rs 78 125
Ø 456 363 ndz ndz 52 50 rz 532 370
dz ds 75 202 nz 87 59 z 117 53
dz 200 231 ng n 752 581 s s 2,155 1,845
f f 1,426 1,287 ng 3,043 2,841 sh 95 53
g g 339 290 nx 156 98 z 75 58
jh jh 218 190 Ø 640 266 sh sh 149 136
k g 86 82 ngk ng 97 137 st s 1,081 1,272
k 4,723 3,836 ngk 545 872 st 804 817
% 170 88 ngz ngs 75 100 t d 333 385
ks ks 397 415 ngz 282 301 dx 2,551 2,403
kt k 118 86 ns ns 230 206 n 68 106
kt 268 227 nt n 956 996 t 5,206 3,910
l l 3,009 2,888 nt 409 363 tq 3,907 5,295
Ø 941 951 ntq 157 239 Ø 2,191 1,653
ld ld 252 226 nx 245 219 th dh 201 143
lf lf 93 80 t 151 81 th 609 642
ls ls 79 81 tq 371 549 ts s 670 633
lz lz 138 133 Ø 596 331 ts 1,847 1,499
m em 550 298 nts ns 61 52 v f 289 333
m 5,257 5,607 nts 102 131 v 2,914 2,773
Ø 253 111 nz ns 75 99 Ø 1,324 1,038
mz ms 62 96 nz 346 254 vd vd 72 99
mz 287 207 p p 1,021 872 z s 958 1,322
n m 154 173 ps ps 64 67 z 5,770 5,497
n 8,739 8,094 r r 4,446 3,671 zh 120 132
ng 72 88 Ø 2,998 2,529 Ø 135 85
nx 1,111 850 rd rd 181 139
Ø 2,541 1,696 rs rs 77 63