PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Phonological Word, Articulatory Phonology, Lexeme
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Speech requires physical action; articulation: it requires exquisitely tight control over more than 100 muscles moving simultaneously. Willem levelt"s production theory is recognized as a mathematical model called weaver++ Activation of an idea does not automatically lead to activation of the speech sounds you need to express the idea. Ex: thinking of the concept cat doesn"t automatically lead to activation of the speech sounds /k/, /a/, and /t/ One of the goals of weaver++ is to describe the intermediate steps between activating an idea and activating the sounds that you need to express the idea. Ex: english has a word that expresses the concept female horse: mare. if you want to express the concept female horse, you can activate the lexical concept mare. But english doesn"t have a single word that can express the concept female elephant. Fall 2018: the outcome of lexical selection is the activation of a lemma.
