Table 1.

Description of Training Tasks

Task	Description	HC group	LC group
Phoneme  monitoring	See two letters; then hear one  word; pick the letter that matches  the last sound in the word	Both letters are possible endings  of words with the same onset  (e.g., net/neck)	Only one letter is a possible ending  of a word with a given onset  (e.g., net/nep)
Same/different	Hear two words one after the other;  report whether they ended in the  same or a different sound	Both words have same onset  (e.g., cat/cap)	Words have different onsets (e.g.,  cat/neck)
Spoken to written  word matching	See two words; then hear one  word; report which of the two  words on the screen they heard	Two words on screen have same  onset	Two words on screen have  different onset
Primed  production	See a word; then hear the same/a  different word; see an eye/ear;  say out loud the word they saw/  heard	When audio/visual words differ,  they have same onset	When audio/visual words differ,  they have different onsets

Note. HC = high competition; LC = low competition.