Abstract
An investigation was conducted to determine whether grammatical, semantical, and phonological constraints affect aural masking. The rationale for the study centered around conflicting reports in the literature as to the importance of content and linguistic rules for masking efficiency. Thirty-six college-age, normal-heating, native speakers of English participated in six conditions of linguistic masking. Conditions differed in type and degree of linguistic violation of the competing message. Articulation scores computed in percentages served as measures. Significant differences in performance were discussed in terms of information theory, figure-ground and closure concepts, linguistic analysis, attention, memory, and linguistic feature detection.
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