Rodrigues Amalia, Befi-Lopes Debora Maria
Santa Casa de São Paulo, Medical Sciences School, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Program, São PauloSP, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo, Medical School, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Program, São PauloSP, Brazil.
Codas. 2013;25(5):422-8. doi: 10.1590/S2317-17822013000500005.
The purpose of this study was to design a short-term memory test, to describe quantitative performance in typically language developing children and to verify the relationship between the non-words repetition and oral phonological measure.
The participants included 136 typically language developing children aged from 3 years to 6 years and 11 months old in this study, who were evaluated. The test consisted of 40 non-words of one, two, three, and four syllables. The subjects' repetitions were transcribed and the number of right answers was calculated for each age range.
The effect of age was observed in the test, as well as the effect of length, only for disyllabic non-words. The performance in the non-word repetition task showed correlation with the oral phonology measure.
The test designed in this research was able to verify the short-term memory in typically language developing children and the results showed correlation between this memory and phonological performance.
本研究的目的是设计一项短期记忆测试,描述语言发育正常儿童的量化表现,并验证非词重复与口语语音测量之间的关系。
本研究纳入了136名年龄在3岁至6岁11个月的语言发育正常儿童并对其进行评估。该测试由40个单音节、双音节、三音节和四音节的非词组成。记录受试者的重复内容,并计算每个年龄组的正确答案数量。
在测试中观察到了年龄效应以及长度效应,且仅双音节非词存在长度效应。非词重复任务中的表现与口语语音测量相关。
本研究设计的测试能够验证语言发育正常儿童的短期记忆,结果表明这种记忆与语音表现之间存在相关性。