An implicit word learning paradigm was designed to test the hypothesis that children who
came to the task of L2 vocabulary acquisition with poorer L1 phonological awareness (PA) …

Phonological Working Memory and L2 Knowledge: Finnish Children Learning English Page 1
JYV Ä SKYL Ä STUDIESINHUMANITIES 184 Helena Miettinen Phonological Working Memory …

Previous research has established that the degree of 'wordlikeness' of nonwords affects
young children's nonword repetition performance. Experiment 1 examined the possibility …

With the ever-increasing demands for success in second language (L2) English speech,
applied linguistics research has been critical to uncovering important characteristics for …

A relationship between phonological short-term memory tasks (eg, nonword repetition, digit
span) and vocabulary learning in both experimental and real-life conditions has been …

In order to uncover whether rhyme can be a useful cue for preschoolers in anticipating
upcoming words heard in speech, we tested 2-to 5-year-old children (N= 74) with a …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between semantic knowledge and
verbal working memory (VWM) in children with typical development (TD), Down syndrome …

One of the great achievements of the Working Memory (WM) model is that it allows a large
amount of data to be fitted into a compact theoretical framework. This is particularly true in …

A variety of evidence suggests that human vocabulary acquisition and verbal short‐term
ability are related. The aim of this study was to investigate the learning of new lexical and …

Investigations of the cognitive processes underlying Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
have implicated deficits in the storage and processing of phonological or verbal information …