Hi,
  For your error "object 't1971' not found" can be corrected
by subsetting.
t2001 can be done similarly with 2001 replacing 1971.
> t1971 <- data[year==1971,]
> t1971
   VOT year Consonant
1   67 1971         k
2  127 1971         k
3   79 1971         k
4  150 1971         k
5   53 1971         k
6   65 1971         k
7   75 1971         k
8  109 1971         k
9  109 1971         t
10 126 1971         t
11 129 1971         t
12 119 1971         t
13 104 1971         t
14 153 1971         t
15 124 1971         t
16 107 1971         t
17 181 1971         t
18 166 1971         t
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