One tape exemplar of each words cowboy, baseball, airplane, cupcake, popcorn, and hotdog spoken with natural (trochaic) and again with unnatural (spondaic) stress were selected from a pool to collect monaural SRTs by earphone in children. There were no significant differences due to type of stress, nor between boys and girls. Older children (N: 16, aged 5.0--6.0 yrs; SRT = --0.2 db HL) exhibited lower SRTs than younger (N: 16, aged 3.0--4.0 yrs; SRT = 3.2 db HL). It was informally observed that response, especially in younger Ss, tended (even when correct) to be at a slower rate, a condition to which the clinician should be alert.