Weaver Model

Question 0

What levels are involved in the weaver model?

Answer 0

Conceptual level (semantics)

Lexical/ Lemma level

Phonological level

Question 1

What does the weaver model describe?

Answer 1

Production

Question 2

Why do we need a lexical level in the weaver model?

Answer 2

Because there are few direct relationships between meaning (conceptual level) and form (phonological level)

GM
Could access: semantics, syntactical and word structure
Could not access: phonological form

Dissociation between knowing what to say and being able to say if

Dante
Italian has a gender which is purely grammatical

Could access: semantics and grammatical gender
Could not access: phonological information

Evidence they are 3 separate systems

Tip of the tongue phenomenon: can access meaning, number of syllables, initial letter/ phoneme but cannot access full phonological forn

Question 3

What does the phonological level need to do in the Weaver model?

Answer 3

Needs to flexible enough to cope with new words and how words are pronounced in assimilation

Therefore we encode words anew at the phonological level every time we produce them

Question 4

What type of activation does the Weaver model have?

Answer 4

Feed-forward only

Activation begins at the conceptual level and influences activation lower down but levels lower down cannot influence those higher up