Investigating Executive Working Memory and Phonological Short-Term Memory in Relation to Fluency and Self-Repair Behavior in L2 Speech

ORCID Identifiers

0000-0002-9461-0330

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Publication Date

8-1-2017

Abstract

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This paper reports the findings of a study investigating the relationship of executive working memory (WM) and phonological short-term memory (PSTM) to fluency and self-repair behavior during an unrehearsed oral task performed by second language (L2) speakers of English at two levels of proficiency, elementary and lower intermediate. Correlational analyses revealed a negative relationship between executive WM and number of pauses in the lower intermediate L2 speakers. However, no reliable association was found in our sample between executive WM or PSTM and self-repair behavior in terms of either frequency or type of self-repair. Taken together, our findings suggest that while executive WM may enhance performance at the conceptualization and formulation stages of the speech production process, self-repair behavior in L2 speakers may depend on factors other than working memory.

ISSN

0090-6905

Publisher

Springer New York LLC

Volume

46

Issue

4

First Page

877

Last Page

895

Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Executive working memory, Fluency, Hesitation phenomena, L2 speech production, Phonological short-term memory, Self-repair behavior, Working memory capacity

Scopus ID

85007212148

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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