Recent research about the common belief that sound patterns of words and their meanings are only arbitrarily related has been put to the test. The study we performed on participants was a self-paced reading of sentences appearing one word at a time to test the relationship between (sound patterns and word meaning. Participants used the space bar to advance through the sentences. The primary words of interest were classified as either “nouny nouns” or “verby nouns” embedded in noun-biased contexts. If participants are sensitive to differences in phonological features between “verby” and “nouny” nouns, their response times could in fact decrease for “nouny” nouns relative to “verby” nouns in a noun-biased context. This study may answer questions about whether phonological typicality can influence response times on more or less regular nouns occurring in an unambiguous noun-biased context. If this is the case, the study shows that participants use multiple cues to evaluate sentence structure.