VOL. 53, BOOK 1, PART A, 2015, pp. 464 – 474 Full text (Fr)

Author: Malina Dicheva

Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv

Abstract

Speech units of different linguistic levels, especially of those of prosody and syntax, frequently overlap each other; thus, the final word(s) of one word group, being at the beginning of the next group, acts as a memory trigger: the learner seems to use that word as a cue for the next group. Even though the processes involved in understanding and thus remembering a sentence are far more complex, the magnitude of this effect is considerable when it actually comes to verbatim, literal memory.

Key words: Verbatim Memory, Syntax-Prosody Interaction