PHONOTACTICS AND SYLLABLE STRESS - IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PROCESSING OFSPOKEN NONSENSE WORDS

Two experiments using bisyllabic CVCCVC nonsense words that Varied in phonotactic probability and stress placement were conducted to examine the influences of phonotactic and metrical information on spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 examined participants' intuitions about the phonological ''goodness'' of nonsense words. Experiment 2 examined pr ocessing times for the same stimuli in a speeded auditory repetition t ask. The results of both studies provide further evidence that the pho notactic configuration and stress placement of spoken stimuli have imp ortant implications for the representation and processing of spoken wo rds.