Sentence repetition as a function of episodic buffer: a pilot study in Croatian
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0018/000560Keywords:
Sentence repetition, Long-term linguistic knowledge, Episodic buffer, Working memoryAbstract
In sentence repetition tasks, the function of the episodic buffer of working memory is to adjust semantic and syntactic information stored in long-term memory. To explain how working memory uses linguistic knowledge about words and constraints on their order in sentences, the constrained sentence span task was adapted and developed. The aim of the study was to determine how many words in sentences children could repeat under conditions both with and without articulatory suppression. Sixteen ten-year-old children participated in the study (M = 10;04). The results showed that success in repeating sentences under both conditions increased up to sentences containing six words. This experimental task accounts for the function of the episodic buffer when controlling various linguistic aspects.
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