Syllable frequency effects on phonological short-term memory tasks

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 643-659

  Nimmo, Lisa M ^a   Roodenrys, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036970629     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716402004071     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Baayen, R. H., Piepenbrock, R., & Van Rijn, H. (1993). The CELEX lexical database. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium.
2. Baddeley, A., Gathercole, S., & Papagno, C. (1998). The phonological loop as a language learning device. Psychological Review, 105, 158-173.
3. Baddeley, A. D., Papagno, C., & Vallar, G. (1988). When long-term learning depends on short-term storage. Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 586-596.
4. Baddeley, A. D., & Wilson, B. A. (1993). A developmental deficit in short-term phonological memory: Implications for language and reading. Memory, 1, 65-78.
5. Bisiacchi, P. S., Cipolotti, L., & Denes, G. (1989). Impairment in processing meaningless verbal material in several modalities: The relationship between short-term memory and phonological skills. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41A, 293-319.
6. Brown, G. D. A., & Hulme, C. (1995). Modeling item length effects in memory span: No rehearsal needed? Journal of Memory and Language, 34, 594-621.
7. Burgess, N. (1995). A solvable connectionist model of immediate recall of ordered lists. In G. Tesauro, D. Touretzky, & J. Alspector (Eds.), Advances in neural information processing (Vol. 7). San Mateo, CA: Kaufmann.
8. Burgess, N., & Hitch, G. J. (1992). Toward a network model of the articulatory loop. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 429-460.
9. Dollaghan, C., Biber, M., & Campbell, T. (1993). Constituent syllable effects in a nonsense word repetition task. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 36, 1051-1054
10. Dollaghan, C. A., Biber, M. E., & Campbell, T. F. (1995). Lexical influences on nonword repetition. Applied Psycholinguistics, 16, 211-222.
11. Ellis, A. W. (1980). Errors in speech and short-term memory: The effects of phonemic similarity and syllable position. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 19, 624-634.
12. Gathercole, S. E. (1995a). Is nonword repetition a test of phonological memory or long-term knowledge? It all depends on the nonwords. Memory and Cognition, 23, 83-94.
13. Gathercole, S. E. (1995b). Nonword repetition: More than just a phonological output task. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 12, 857-861.
14. Gathercole, S. E., & Adams, A. (1993). Phonological working memory in very young children. Developmental Psychology, 29, 770-778.
15. Gathercole, S. E., & Adams, A. (1994). Children's phonological working memory: Contributions of long-term knowledge and rehearsal. Journal of Memory and Language, 33, 672-688.
16. Gathercole, S. E., & Baddeley, A. D. (1989). Evaluation of the role of phonological STM in the development of vocabulary in children: A longitudinal study. Journal of Memory and Language, 28, 200-213.
17. Gathercole, S. E., & Baddeley, A. D. (1990). Phonological memory deficits in language disordered children: Is there a causal connection? Journal of Memory and Language, 29, 336-360.
18. Gathercole, S. E., Frankish, C. R., Pickering, S. J., & Peaker, S. (1999). Phonotactic influences on short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 25, 84-95.
19. Gathercole, S. E., Hitch, G. J., Service, E., & Martin, A. J. (1997). Phonological short-term memory and new word learning in children. Developmental Psychology, 33, 966-979.
20. Gathercole, S. E., Service, E., Hitch, G. J., Adams, A., & Martin, A. J. (1999). Phonological short-term memory and vocabulary development: Further evidence on the nature of the relationship. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 13, 65-77.
21. Gathercole, S. E., Willis, C., & Baddeley, A. D. (1991). Differentiating phonological memory and awareness or rhyme: Reading and vocabulary development in children. British Journal of Psychology, 82, 387-406.
22. Gathercole, S. E., Willis, C. S., Baddeley, A. D., & Emslie, H. (1994). The Children's Test of Nonword Repetition: A test of phonological working memory. Memory, 2, 103-127.
23. Gathercole, S. E., Willis, C., Emslie, H., & Baddeley, A. D. (1991). The influences of syllables and wordlikeness on children's repetition of nonwords. Applied Psycholinguistics, 12, 349-367.
24. Gathercole, S. E., Willis, C., Emslie, H., & Baddeley, A. D. (1992). Phonological memory and vocabulary development during the early school years: A longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology, 28, 887-898.
25. Gupta, P., & MacWhinney, B. (1997). Vocabulary acquisition and verbal short-term memory: Computational and neural bases. Brain and Language, 59, 267-333.
26. Hartley, T., & Houghton, G. (1996). A linguistically constrained model of short-term memory for nonwords. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 1-31.
27. Houghton, G. (1990). The problem of serial order: A neural network model of sequence learning and recall. In R. Dale, C. Mellish, & M. Zock (Eds.), Current research in natural language generation. New York: Academic Press.
28. Houghton, G. (1993). Inhibitory control of neuridynamics: Opponent mechanisms in sequencing and selective attention. In M. Oaksford & G. D. A. Brown (Eds.), Neurodynamics and psychology. New York: Academic Press.
29. Houghton, G. (1994). Spelling and serial recall: Insights from a competitive queuing model. In G. D. A. Brown & N. C. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of normal and disturbed spelling. New York: Wiley.
30. Hulme, C., Maughan, S., & Brown, G. D. A. (1991). Memory for familiar and unfamiliar words: Evidence for a longer term memory contribution to short-term memory span. Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 685-701.
31. Hulme, C., Roodenrys, S., Schweikert, R., Brown, G. D. A., Martin, S., & Stuart, G. (1997). Word frequency effects on short-term memory tasks: Evidence for a redintegration process in immediate serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 1217-1232.
32. Jorm, A. (1983). Specific reading retardation and working memory: A review. British Journal of Psychology, 74, 311-342.
33. Kessler, B., & Treiman, R. (1997). Syllables structure and the distribution of phonemes in English syllables. Journal of Memory and Language, 37, 295-311.
34. MacKay, D. G. (1972). The structure of words and syllables: Evidence from errors in speech. Cognitive Psychology, 3, 210-227.
35. MacNeilage, P. R., & DeClerk, J. L. (1969). On the motor control of coarticulation in CVC mono-syllables. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 45, 1217-1233.
36. Metsala, J. L. (1999). Young children's phonological awareness and nonword repetition as a function of vocabulary development. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 3-19.
37. Roodenrys, S., & Hinton, M. (2002). Sublexical or lexical effects on serial recall of nonwords? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 28, 29-33.
38. Roodenrys, S., Hulme, C., & Brown, G. (1993). The development of short-term memory span: Separable effects of speech rate and long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 56, 431-442.
39. Schweikert, R. (1993). A multinomial processing tree model for degradation and redintegration in immediate recall. Memory and Cognition, 21, 168-175.
40. Service, E. (1992). Phonology, working memory, and foreign-language learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45A, 21-50.
41. Snowling, M., Chiat, S., & Hulme, C. (1991). Words, nonwords and phonological processes: Some comments on Gathercole, Willis, Emslie and Baddeley. Applied Psycholinguistics, 12, 369-373.
42. Treiman, R. (1983). The structure of spoken syllables: Evidence from novel word games. Cognition, 15, 49-74.
43. Treiman, R. (1984). On the status of final consonant clusters in English syllables. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 23, 343-356.
44. Treiman, R. (1995). Errors in short-term memory for speech: A developmental study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 21, 1197-1208.
45. Treiman, R., & Danis, C. (1988). Short-term memory errors for spoken syllables are affected by the linguistic structure of the syllables. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 14, 145-152.
46. Vitevitch, M. S., & Luce, P. A. (1999). Probabilistic phonotactics and neighborhood activation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 374-408.
47. Wagner, R. K., & Torgesen, J. K. (1987). The nature of phonological processing and its causal role in the acquisition of reading skills. Psychological Bulletin, 101, 192-212.
48. Wells, B. (1995). Phonological considerations in repetition tasks. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 12, 847-855.