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Description: We can learn about the specificity vs. domain-generality of language processing mechanisms in the brain by comparing the processing of language and non-meaningful linguistic stimuli like environmental sounds. In this study, participants listened to either spoken words or environmental sounds at the end of sentences. Half the time, these sentence endings made sense conceptually with the rest of the sentence (meaningful condition) and half the time they did not (nonsense condition). We looked for differences in ERPs, particularly the N400s, to speech and nonspeech sounds after a spoken sentence.