In this paper, I will investigate the relationship between degrees of wordlikeness and well-formedness judgments of nonwords, having in mind the following hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: If speakers are aware of the constraint *[+voice] while performing well-formedness judgments, given a comparable amount of neighborhood density, the ratings for novel words with no violation of *j+voice] should be consistently higher than those incurring a violation of the constraint.
to argue for the psychological reality of *[+voice], novel words with illegal clusters are expected to be less acceptable than those containing legal clusters or 'Gap' clusters.