title: Short-term phonological memory in preschool children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to design a short-term memory test, to describe quantitative performance in typically language developing children and to verify the relationship between the non-words repetition and oral phonological measure.
  
  
  METHODS
  The participants included 136 typically language developing children aged from 3 years to 6 years and 11 months old in this study, who were evaluated. The test consisted of 40 non-words of one, two, three, and four syllables. The subjects' repetitions were transcribed and the number of right answers was calculated for each age range.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The effect of age was observed in the test, as well as the effect of length, only for disyllabic non-words. The performance in the non-word repetition task showed correlation with the oral phonology measure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The test designed in this research was able to verify the short-term memory in typically language developing children and the results showed correlation between this memory and phonological performance.
authors.affiliation: Santa Casa de São Paulo, Medical Sciences School, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Program, São PauloSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Amalia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Medical School, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Program, São PauloSP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Debora Maria
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Befi-Lopes
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010700:Phonetics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D016896:Treatment Outcome