Arthur Stepanov (Author), Karmen Brina Kodrič (Author), Penka Stateva (Author)

Abstract

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.

Keywords

multilingualism;working memory;phonology;

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Language: English
Year of publishing:
Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization: UNG - University of Nova Gorica
UDC: 81
COBISS: 5587963 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 1932-6203
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URN: URN:SI:UNG
Type (COBISS): Not categorized
Pages: str. 1-16
Volume: ǂVol. ǂ15
Issue: ǂno. ǂ3
Chronology: Mar. 2020
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229857
ID: 11433078