The results from the perception experiment (experiment 2), on the other hand, suggested
that neither lexical class nor syllabic structure influenced their preferred patterns
of stress assignment. Discrepancies between these two experiments might have stemmed
from a difference in relative degree of demand placed on the processing system by the two
tasks. A relatively stronger processing demand placed on the participant in the production
task may have perhaps forced them to access those aspects of knowledge stored in the
lexicon.