A reversal in ear advantage for double‐contrast pairs of synthetic stop‐vowel syllables was reported at the 90th meeting of the Society. The ear advantage was an REA=51% for voiceless‐left, voiced‐right pairs, but an LEA=27% for voiced‐left, voiceless‐right pairs. We evaluated the generality of this reversal by using two criteria for syllable alignment: onset of periodicity and onset of burst. Three listeners who had demonstrated the reversal in a previous experiment were tested. The reversal was preserved in both alignment conditions, suggesting that it was not influenced by temporal delays inherent in either alignment criterion. The results will be discussed in terms of the “lag effect” [Berlinet al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am.53, 699–709 (1973)] and will be contrasted with findings obtained with natural CV's [Supported by PHS Grant No. NS‐12125.]