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An examination of the associations among multiple memory systems, past tense, and vocabulary in typically developing 5 year old children
Purpose: Considerable research has investigated the role of verbal working memory in language development in children with and without language problems. Much less is currently known about the relationship between language and the declarative and procedural memory systems. This study examined whether these 2 memory systems were related to typically developing children's past tense and lexical knowledge.
Method: Fifty-eight typically developing children approximately 5 years of age completed a battery of linguistic and nonlinguistic tasks, including tests of vocabulary, past tense production, and procedural and declarative memory.
Results: The results showed that declarative and procedural memory were not correlated with either regular or irregular past tense use. A significant correlation was observed between declarative memory and vocabulary.
Conclusions: The results of the study were not consistent with the view that the declarative and procedural memory systems support children's use of the regular and irregular past tense. However, evidence was found suggesting that declarative memory supports vocabulary in this age group.
Method: Fifty-eight typically developing children approximately 5 years of age completed a battery of linguistic and nonlinguistic tasks, including tests of vocabulary, past tense production, and procedural and declarative memory.
Results: The results showed that declarative and procedural memory were not correlated with either regular or irregular past tense use. A significant correlation was observed between declarative memory and vocabulary.
Conclusions: The results of the study were not consistent with the view that the declarative and procedural memory systems support children's use of the regular and irregular past tense. However, evidence was found suggesting that declarative memory supports vocabulary in this age group.
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Journal of speech, language, and hearing researchVolume
55Issue
4Pagination
989 - 1006Publisher
American Speech - Language - Hearing AssociationLocation
Rockville, Md.Publisher DOI
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1092-4388eISSN
1558-9102Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
2012, American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationUsage metrics
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Science & TechnologySocial SciencesLife Sciences & BiomedicineAudiology & Speech-Language PathologyLinguisticsRehabilitationpast tensevocabularydeclarative memoryprocedural memoryNONWORD REPETITION PERFORMANCESHORT-TERM-MEMORYLANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTWORKING-MEMORYGRAMMARTIMEACQUISITIONDISEASELEXICONLinguistics
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