About the Authors

Claire Bowern

claire.bowern@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Patience Epps

Affiliation Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Russell Gray

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand

Jane Hill

Affiliation School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Keith Hunley

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Patrick McConvell

Affiliation College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Jason Zentz

Affiliation Department of Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB PE RG JH KH PM. Performed the experiments: CB PE JH KH PM. Analyzed the data: CB KH. Wrote the paper: CB KH PE JH PM JZ.