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Aleksander Veraksa1, Daria Bukhalenkova1, Natalia Kartushina2
1Lomonosov MSU, Moscow 125009, Russia.
Abstract:
This study examined the relationship between working memory capacity and narrative abilities in 5-6-year-old children. 269 children were assessed on their visual and verbal working memory and performed in a story retelling and a story creation (based on a single picture and on a series of pictures) tasks. The stories were evaluated on their macrostructure and microstructure. The results revealed a significant relationship between both components (verbal and visual) of working memory and the global indicators of a story's macrostructure-such as semantic completeness, semantic adequacy, programming and narrative structure-and with the indicators of a story's microstructure, such as grammatical accuracy and number of syntagmas. Yet, this relationship was systematically stronger for verbal working memory, as compared to visual working memory, suggesting that a well-developed verbal working memory leads to lexically and grammatically more accurate language production in preschool children.
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