On-line processing of inflected spoken words was examined using phoneme-monitoring RT to following targets. Plural and singular nouns followed contexts that required plurals (e.g., A dozen bagels/bagel tumbled...) or were neutral (e.g.. The frozen bagels/bagel tumbled ...) . Relative to the neutral contexts, recognition of congruent plural nouns was facilitated, and recognition of incongruent singular nouns was disrupted.
