Al-Namlah Abdulrahman S, Fernyhough Charles, Meins Elizabeth
Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, England.
Dev Psychol. 2006 Jan;42(1):117-31. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.1.117.
Cross-national stability in private speech (PS) and short-term memory was investigated in Saudi Arabian (n = 63) and British (n = 58) 4- to 8-year-olds. Assumed differences in child-adult interaction between the 2 nationality groups led to predictions of Gender x Nationality interactions in the development of verbal mediation. British boys used more self-regulatory PS than British girls, whereas there was no such difference for the Saudi group. When age, verbal ability, and social speech were controlled, boys used slightly more self-regulatory PS than girls. Self-regulatory PS was related to children's use of phonological recoding of visually presented material in a short-term memory task, suggesting that PS and phonological recoding represent different facets of a domain-general transition toward verbal mediation in early childhood.
对沙特阿拉伯（n = 63）和英国（n = 58）4至8岁儿童的私下言语（PS）和短期记忆的跨国稳定性进行了研究。由于假设两个国籍组中儿童与成人互动存在差异，因此预测在言语调解发展中会出现性别×国籍的相互作用。英国男孩比英国女孩使用更多的自我调节性私下言语，而沙特组则没有这种差异。在控制了年龄、语言能力和社交言语后，男孩比女孩稍微多使用一些自我调节性私下言语。自我调节性私下言语与儿童在短期记忆任务中对视觉呈现材料的语音编码使用有关，这表明私下言语和语音编码代表了幼儿期向言语调解的领域一般转变的不同方面。
