Nonword repetition is closely associated with the learning of the phonological form of novel words.Several factors influence nonword repetition performance such as short-term memory, phonotacticprobability, lexical knowledge, and prosodic factors. The present study examined the influence oflist duration, coarticulation, and prosody on nonword repetition by comparing naturally articulatedmultisyllabic nonwords to multisyllabic nonwords formed by concatenating syllables produced inisolation and serial lists (experiment 1), to multisyllabic forms that incorporated either valid orinvalid coarticulatory information (experiment 2), and to multisyllabic forms either with or withoutcommon English within-word stress patterns (experiment 3). Results revealed superior recall fornaturally articulated nonwords compared to lists of matched duration or sequences with invalidcoarticulatory cues. Within-word stress patterns also conveyed a repetition advantage. The findingsclearly establish that the coarticulatory and prosodic cues of naturally articulated multisyllabicforms support retention.
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