Crowder (1973)
CROWDER, Robert G. “Representation of Speech Sounds in Precategorical Acoustic Storage.” Journal of Experimental Psychology 98/1 (1973): 14-24.
Describes three experiments which tested subjects memory performance under highly constrained conditions, to ascertain causes for differences in performance relative to the order of vowel to consonant, contrasting terminal voiced consonant with initial voiced fricatives, in consonant vowel pairs. Stimuli were synthetically generated syllables. Suggests that differences in performance relates not to order of elements but rather to differences between steady-state and transient acoustic information. The research is along the lines of Studdert-Kennedy & Shankweiler 1970, above, in that it focuses on low-level perceptual functioning. It is not clear from this article how such data is meant to relate to larger questions, though it may be that such lower-level research is essentially foundational for formulating broader theories.
