Phonological short-term and working memory in bilinguals' native and second language

Autor:	Jeewon Yoo, Margarita Kaushanskaya
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Working memory Short-term memory Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition Phonology Language and Linguistics Psycholinguistics Task (project management) Task analysis Psychology Neuroscience of multilingualism General Psychology Cognitive psychology
Zdroj:	Applied Psycholinguistics. 34:1005-1037
ISSN:	1469-1817 0142-7164
DOI:	10.1017/s0142716412000100
Popis:	The goal of the current study was to examine bilinguals' phonological short-term and working memory performance in their native/first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Korean–English bilinguals were tested in both Korean (L1) and English (L2). Short-term memory (STM) was measured via a nonword repetition task, where participants repeated nonwords that increased in length. Working memory (WM) was measured via a complex task, where the nonword repetition task was combined with an animacy judgment task. In general, bilinguals performed better on the STM task than on the WM task, and with shorter nonwords than with longer nonwords. Results also revealed that L1 STM performance was superior to L2 STM performance, but only for the longest nonwords, whereas L1 WM performance was superior to L2 WM performance across all length levels. In addition, correlation analyses between bilinguals' L1 and L2 performance revealed stronger cross-linguistic associations for the WM task than for the STM task. Together, the findings suggest that WM tasks may engage domain-general central executive processes in bilinguals, whereas STM skills may depend on language-specific knowledge in the L1 and the L2.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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