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Investigating Executive Working Memory and Phonological Short-Term Memory in Relation to Fluency and Self-Repair Behavior in L2 Speech
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
  • Effrosyni Georgiadou, Zayed University
  • Karen Roehr-Brackin, University of Essex
ORCID Identifiers

0000-0002-9461-0330

Document Type
Article
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.

Publisher
Springer New York LLC
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
http://repository.essex.ac.uk/18797/1/Repository_Georgiadou_Roehr-Brackin_2016_JoPR.pdf
Citation Information
Effrosyni Georgiadou and Karen Roehr-Brackin. "Investigating Executive Working Memory and Phonological Short-Term Memory in Relation to Fluency and Self-Repair Behavior in L2 Speech" Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Vol. 46 Iss. 4 (2017) p. 877 - 895 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0090-6905" target="_blank">0090-6905</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/effrosyni-georgiadou/2/