The role of working memory in children’s ability for prosodic discrimination
Previous research established that young children are sensitive to prosodic cues discriminating between syntactic structures of otherwise similarly sounding sentences in a language unknown to them. In this study, we explore the role of working memory that children might deploy for the purpose of the sentence-level prosodic discrimination. Nine-year old Slovenian monolingual and bilingual children (N = 70) were tested on a same-different prosodic discrimination task in a language unknown to them (French) and on the working memory measures in the form of forward and backward digit span and non-word repetition tasks. The results suggest that both the storage and processing components of the working memory are involved in the prosodic discrimination task.
2020
2020-03-10 07:55:10
1033
multilingualism, working memory,phonology
r6
Arthur
Stepanov
70
Karmen Brina
Kodrič
70
Penka
Stateva
70
COBISS_ID
3
5587963
DOI
15
10.1371/journal.pone.0229857
NUK URN
18
URN:SI:UNG:REP:QPDB44JA
journal.pone.0229857.pdf
1184820
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