Production priming of stress in nonwords

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In this study, we demonstrate production-to-production priming of stress in nonwords, when participants must assign a stress pattern without reference to lexical information. This priming effect is boosted when segmental material overlaps between prime and target, but is robust even when no segmental material overlaps. We argue that stress patterns are represented in the minds of speakers, independently from segmental representations. These independent stress representations must be active alongside segmental representations during production.