SOME COMPETENCE-PROCESS RELATIONSHIPS IN NOUN PHRASES WITH PRENOMINAL AND POSTNOMINAL ADJECTIVES

The view that the syntactic description of a sentence can provide a model of certain habits involved in sentence encoding has not been extensively tested. A theory of encoding was proposed in which some aspects of order in the base were taken to correspond to the psychological order of choice of morphemes for production. The theory was tested for English noun phrases with prenominal adjectives and for Indonesian noun phrases with post-nominal adjectives. The results were consistent with predictions based on the theory. An analysis-by-synthesis hypothesis of decoding was proposed, which contained the proposed encoding model as a subcomponent. Experimental results did not confirm the predictions based upon the decoding hypothesis. © 1969 Academic Press Inc. All rights reserved.