抄録
The purpose of this study is to investigate the function of working memory in processing the consecutive sentences auditorily presented to the advanced Chinese learners of Japanese. In the experiment, we manipulated the working memory (WM) capacity as an independent variable. Change-detection paradigm was adopted as the main task, and articulatory suppression was used as a dual task. The main results were as follows: (1) the accuracy of the group with larger WM capacity was higher than the smaller WM group, (2) there was no difference in the accuracy due to articulatory suppression between 2nd and 3rd sentence, but accuracy was higher in the case of the 2nd sentence, under the condition with articulatory suppression. These results suggested that learners with larger WM capacity tend to focus on meaning processing, while the learners with smaller WM capacity tend to memorize the speech information when presented with consecutive auditory sentences.
https://ror.org/03t78wx29 
