ABSTRACT
One of the most interesting results in the study of neighborhood effects on nonword repetition has been Vitevitch & Luce’s (1998) finding that increased neighborhood density has a facilitatory effect on nonword repetition latency. However, analysis of the stimuli used by Vitevitch and Luce (1998) reveals a mean stimulus duration difference of 16 ms that may have contributed to the observed difference. Experiment 1 presents a replication of the basic response latency effect and Experiment 2 presents a reduction of the effect to nonsignificance after controlling for stimulus duration differences through stimulus extension and compression.
