However, in a paper from 2001, Ekaterini Klepousniotouhashas reprinted the list nonce words that she used in her experiment. For handy future reference, here's her list (pp. 219–221):
tanel, scling, kunch, sile, nacket, foach, zan, crant, puit, dace, nank, vap, maist, zail, iye, neg, reck, kip, mongue, ping, orive, rotato, nemon, labbit, rabbage, affle, sarrot, otion, omange, nomato, jotel, ardar, phogo, faln, ubit, leamber, stoge, cagon, ampel, calern, fike, piddar, trage, napion, paggern, mirgake, pelton, wame, wearon, reafon, tuge, stument, cory, prile, ripal, tave, roke, togic, ebergy, folbune, digorce, draze, linerty, snate, shabe, sagary, hode, clikate, cemper, lige, galben, zold, gort, ceal, brug, gatch, bap, nall, dafe, pake, feck, sote, douth, nofe, shourber, wiggow, zear, sig, frum, ablicot, reek, neach, arkond, cujumber, blail, glick, viodin, chidel, modey, spirach, cebery, drace, goice, blaffic, subar, yope, baple, proot, pladow, zipe, plice, loat, gud, vind, gricken, prock, bope, gair, nalt, pable.From a completely unqualified impressionistic perspective, they seem to be quite qualitatively different.
For instance, roke and pable are plausible non-words, but do not strongly resemble any other English words in particular. On the other hand, rotato, nemon, jotel, sarrot, digorce, and sig seem to do.
I don't know why reek is on this list, either. That seems to be an obvious blunder.
Also, loat is only a graphical non-word: Phonetically, it is identical to load, which is a bit unfortunate.
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