Abstract
Standard linguistic analysis of syntax uses the T-model.
This model requires the ordering: D-structure > S-structure > LF,
where D-structure is the sentences deep structure, S-structure
is its surface structure, and LF is its logical form.
Between each of these representations there is movement
which alters the order of the constituent words;
movement is achieved using the principles and parameters
of syntactic theory. Psychological analysis of sentence
production is usually either serial or connectionist.
Psychological serial models do not accommodate the T-model
immediately so that here a new model called the P-model
is introduced. The P-model is different
from previous linguistic and psychological models.
Here it is argued that the LF representation
should be replaced by a variant of Frege'sA three qualities
(sense, reference, and force), called the FregeA representation
or F-representation. In the F-representation the order
of elements is not necessarily the same as that in LF
and it is suggested that the correct ordering is:
F-representation > D-structure > S-structure.
This ordering appears to lead to a more natural
view of sentence production and processing.
Within this framework movement originates as the outcome
of emphasis applied to the sentence.
The requirement that the F-representation precedes
the D-structure needs a picture of the particular principles
and parameters which pertain to movement of words
between representations. In general this would imply
that there is a preferred or optimal ordering of the symbolic
string in the F-representation. The standard ordering
is retained because the general way of producing
such an optimal ordering is unclear. In this case
it is possible to produce an analysis of movement
between LF and D-structure similar to the usual analysis
of movement between S-structure and LF.
The necessity of analyzing corrupted data suggests
that a maximal amount of information about a language's grammar
and lexicon is stored.