Fig. 1.

Examples of stimuli. Panels on the left show a schematic illustration of the phoneme combinations used in the experiments, with the constituent phonemes of the three displayed example items highlighted in yellow. Panels on the right show spectrograms of the respective audio information. The onset of the critical inflectional suffix (and zero point of epoch) is marked with a vertical, yellow line for each inflectional condition. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)