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- Language, Skinner argued, is learned operant behavior that is shaped and maintained like other (nonverbal) behavior. This idea was a central tenet of Skinner’s analysis and his interest was in identifying the learning history and variables that control verbal behavior.
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A writer, a linguist, and a behavior analyst agreed to meet inside B. F. Skinner's skin. The result of this encounter materialized in 1957, as Verbal Behavior , an approach to speech whose most important theoretical and applied consequences are yet to come.
- Maria de Lourdes R. da F. Passos
- 10.1007/BF03392270
- 2012
- Behav Anal. 2012 Spring; 35(1): 115-126.
B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior (1957) is analyzed in the context of early language learning. In the book, Skinner did not emp hasize the foundations for language learning in infants and young children. His principles and concepts are integrated with current knowledge of caregiver-infant interactions.
- Scott F. McLaughlin
- 2010
American linguist Noam Chomsky published a review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior in the linguistics journal Language in 1959. Chomsky argued that Skinner's attempt to use behaviorism to explain human language amounted to little more than word games.
Skinner was one of the first to seriously consider the role of imitation in language learning. He introduced this concept into his book Verbal Behavior with the concept of the echoic. It is a behavior under the functional control of a verbal stimulus.
Language, Skinner argued, is learned operant behavior that is shaped and maintained like other (nonverbal) behavior. This idea was a central tenet of Skinner’s analysis and his interest was in identifying the learning history and variables that control verbal behavior.
Skinner’s actual definition of verbal behavior is “behavior reinforced through the mediation of other persons [who] must be responding in ways which have been conditioned precisely in order to reinforce the behavior of the speaker” (Skinner, 1957: 225). This definition sparked many controversies, but it is important to look at Skinner’s ...
Jan 16, 2008 · 1. Chomsky's Case against Skinner. 2. Arguments for the Innateness of Language. 2.1 What do Children Learn when they Learn Language? 2.2 Chomsky's ‘Poverty of the Stimulus’ Argument for the Innateness of Language.
