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      The role of working memory in children's ability for prosodic discrimination

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          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.

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                PLoS One
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                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                9 March 2020
                2020
                : 15
                : 3
                : e0229857
                Affiliations
                [001]Center for Cognitive Science of Language, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
                CNRS - Université d'Aix-Marseille, FRANCE
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8156-0541
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                PONE-D-19-17892
                10.1371/journal.pone.0229857
                7062260
                32150570
                2da39425-b651-43c1-98f5-71425c05632c
                © 2020 Stepanov et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 25 June 2019
                : 16 February 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 7, Tables: 2, Pages: 16
                Funding
                This work was supported by the EU Seventh Framework program under contract no. 613465 while KBK was at the University of Nova Gorica. In addition, AS and PS were supported in part by the Slovenian Research Agency core research funding no. P6-0382. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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