LISTENERS ' RESPONSES TO EXTRANEOUS SIGNALS COINCIDENT WITH ENGLISH AND FRENCH SPEECH

ABSTRACT- English and French listeners performed two tasks- click location and speeded click detection- with both English and French sentences, closely matched lor syntactic and phonological structure. Clicks were located more accurately in open- than in closed-class words in both English and French; they were detected more rapidly in open- than in closed-class words in English, but not in French. The two listener groups produced the same pattern of responses, suggesting that higher-level linguistic processing was not involved in these tasks