Phonological Short-Term Memory

In the last ten years, there has been increasing interest in phonological short-term memory and its relationship to second language acquisition. Phonological short-term memory capacity has been associated specifically with vocabulary acquisition. For example, Papagno and Vallar (1995) showed ____________________. The study by Speciale, Ellis, and Bywater (2004) have also supported the relationship between STM and the learning of vocabulary, showing that the capacity of the phonological store places constrains on lexical acquisition. Kormos and Safar (2008) found a relationship between short-term memory and general language performance.

Masoura and Gathercole (2005) took a further step and looked at the relationship between existing foreign