Recent work shows lexical recognition in English is influenced by prosodic characteristics of preceding words (e.g., Dilley et al, 2010, Journal of Memory and Language). This study investigates whether preceding prosody affects lexical recognition in Spanish, a language with productive lexical stress contrasts (e.g., saco ‘bag’ vs. saco ‘he carried out’). In an experiment, each of 30 disyllabic test items was embedded in a carrier phrase; each item was consistent with one of two lexical interpretations that were distinguished by having primary stress on the initial vs. final syllable (e.g., saco vs. saco). The prosody of words preceding the test item was resynthesized with one of two fundamental frequency and timing patterns predicted to generate distinct patterns of syllable prominence favoring perception of primary stress on either the initial or final syllable of the test item. The acoustic characteristics of the test item were identical across prosody conditions. If perception of lexical stress depend...