French and American participants listened to new music stimuli and evaluated the stimuli using either adjectives or quantitative musical dimensions. Results were analyzed using correspondence analysis (CA), hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), multiple factor analysis (MFA), and partial least squares correlation (PLSC). French and American listeners differed when they described the musical stimuli using adjectives, but not when using the quantitative dimensions. The present work serves as a case study in research methodology that allows for a balance between relaxing experimental control and maintaining statistical rigor.

翻译：法语和英语母语者聆听了新的音乐刺激材料，并使用形容词或定量音乐维度对刺激材料进行评估。结果采用对应分析（CA）、层次聚类分析（HCA）、多重因子分析（MFA）和偏最小二乘相关（PLSC）进行了分析。当被试使用形容词描述音乐刺激时，法语与英语母语者显示出差异，但在使用定量维度进行评估时未呈现显著差异。本研究作为研究方法论的案例，展现了如何在放宽实验控制与保持统计严谨性之间取得平衡。