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P-model Alternative to the T-model

Computation and Language 2007-05-23 v3 Neurons and Cognition

Abstract

Standard linguistic analysis of syntax uses the T-model. This model requires the ordering: D-structure >> S-structure >> LF. 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 serial models do not accommodate the T-model immediately so that here a new model called the P-model is introduced. Here it is argued that the LF representation should be replaced by a variant of Frege's three qualities. 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. Within this framework movement originates as the outcome of emphasis applied to the sentence.

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@article{arxiv.cs/9811018,
  title  = {P-model Alternative to the T-model},
  author = {Mark D. Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/9811018},
  year   = {2007}
}

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28 pages, 73262 bytes, six eps diagrams, 53 references, background to this work is described: http://cosmology.mth.uct.ac.za/~roberts/pastresearch/pmodel.html