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undergraduate thesis: Serial order short-term memory, item short-term memory and vocabulary learning in bilingual adults of Cantonese and English
Title | Serial order short-term memory, item short-term memory and vocabulary learning in bilingual adults of Cantonese and English |
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Issue Date | 2011 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Ip, H. N. [葉凱欣]. (2011). Serial order short-term memory, item short-term memory and vocabulary learning in bilingual adults of Cantonese and English. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | Previous studies of bilingual speakers have shown a strong relationship between phonological short-term memory and vocabulary learning, particularly serial order short-term memory. This study tested the hypothesis of phonological short-term memory in predicting the acquisition of expert vocabulary in bilingual adults of Cantonese and English. Twenty undergraduate students were recruited and different behavioural tests were administered to investigate their extant vocabulary knowledge in both languages and their phonological short-term memory abilities. Two phases of data collection were involved in this study: tests of phonological memory, cognitive abilities and lexical decision were carried out in Phase 1; where in Phase 2, lexical decision task was re-tested to measure the change in their vocabulary learning overtime. It has been found that extant vocabulary knowledge and phonological short-term memory are good predictors of vocabulary learning. The results also give evidence to the idea of a shared lexico-semantic process in both languages. |
Degree | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Subject | Language acquisition Short-term memory |
Dept/Program | Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192883 |
HKU Library Item ID | b5093376 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Ip, Hoi-yan, Nathalie | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | 葉凱欣 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-28T06:05:21Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-28T06:05:21Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Ip, H. N. [葉凱欣]. (2011). Serial order short-term memory, item short-term memory and vocabulary learning in bilingual adults of Cantonese and English. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192883 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Previous studies of bilingual speakers have shown a strong relationship between phonological short-term memory and vocabulary learning, particularly serial order short-term memory. This study tested the hypothesis of phonological short-term memory in predicting the acquisition of expert vocabulary in bilingual adults of Cantonese and English. Twenty undergraduate students were recruited and different behavioural tests were administered to investigate their extant vocabulary knowledge in both languages and their phonological short-term memory abilities. Two phases of data collection were involved in this study: tests of phonological memory, cognitive abilities and lexical decision were carried out in Phase 1; where in Phase 2, lexical decision task was re-tested to measure the change in their vocabulary learning overtime. It has been found that extant vocabulary knowledge and phonological short-term memory are good predictors of vocabulary learning. The results also give evidence to the idea of a shared lexico-semantic process in both languages. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | en_US |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | en_US |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Language acquisition | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Short-term memory | en_US |
dc.title | Serial order short-term memory, item short-term memory and vocabulary learning in bilingual adults of Cantonese and English | en_US |
dc.type | UG_Thesis | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkul | b5093376 | en_US |
dc.description.thesisname | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.thesislevel | Bachelor | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Speech and Hearing Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | en_US |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991035837669703414 | - |