Abstract
Abstract This paper describes a psycholinguistic experiment designed to determine if the phonological generalizations which are described by linguists are psychologically significant for Spanish speakers. The experiment consists of a lexical decision task, in which the priming effect which morphemically related words have on each other is measured. In the experiment, morphemically related word‐pairs with allomorphy representative of common phonological patterns did not prime better than pairs with uncommon root allomorphy. These findings suggest that the kind of phonological alternation which exists in a word‐pair has no bearing on whether the words are considered morphemically related or not by language speakers.
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