About the Authors

Elisabeth Fonteneau

Current address: Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation UCL Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Heather K. J. van der Lely

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: h.vanderlely@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation UCL Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Hv. Performed the experiments: EF. Analyzed the data: EF. Wrote the paper: Hv. Other: Designed the auditory control experiment: EF. Prepared the linguistic materials with help from Nichola Gallon, DLDCN Centre: EF. Conducted the pre-test experiment for adults: EF. Wrote the first draft of the methods, summarised the results and auditory processing experiment sections, figure captions and constructed the Figures: EF. Commented on and discussed the drafts of the manuscript: EF. Designed and conducted the pre-test experiment for children and teenagers: Hv.