Center for Cognitive Science of Language, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
PLoS One. 2020 Mar 9;15(3):e0229857. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229857. eCollection 2020.
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.
先前的研究表明，幼儿对于在他们不熟悉的语言中区分句法结构的韵律线索非常敏感，即使这些句子的发音相同。在这项研究中，我们探索了儿童可能为了进行句子层面的韵律区分而使用的工作记忆的作用。我们对 9 岁的斯洛文尼亚单语和双语儿童（N=70）进行了一项在他们不熟悉的语言（法语）中的相同-不同韵律区分任务以及工作记忆测量，包括顺背和倒背数字广度测验和非词重复任务。结果表明，工作记忆的存储和处理成分都参与了韵律区分任务。
