Early Behaviorist Psychology and Contemporary Linguistics

Schlauch, Margaret

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“…In 1924, the Linguistic Society of America was founded (Bloomfield, 1925) and, among its charter members, 3 we find William P. Shepherd, who taught French theater to Skinner at Hamilton College (Skinner, 1976, p. 215) as well as to the behaviorists Albert P. Weiss and J. R. Kantor. The presence of behaviorists in the very foundation of this society is an indication of the importance of linguistic studies among behaviorists and also of the influence of behaviorism on linguistics in that period (Schlauch, 1946).…”

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Linguistic sources of Skinner’s verbal behavior

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2006

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Formal and functional analyses of verbal behavior have been often considered to be divergent and incompatible. Yet, an examination of the history of part of the analytical approach used in Verbal Behavior (Skinner, 1957/1992) for the identification and conceptualization of verbal operant units discloses that it corresponds well with formal analyses of languages. Formal analyses have been carried out since the invention of writing and fall within the scope of traditional grammar and structural linguistics, particularly in analyses made by the linguist Leonard Bloomfield. The relevance of analytical instruments originated from linguistic studies (which examine and describe the practices of verbal communities) to the analysis of verbal behavior, as proposed by Skinner, relates to the conception of a verbal community as a prerequisite for the acquisition of verbal behavior. A deliberately interdisciplinary approach is advocated in this paper, with the systematic adoption of linguistic analyses and descriptions adding relevant knowledge to the design of experimental research in verbal behavior.

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Linguistic sources of Skinner’s verbal behavior

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Homo loquens: An ethological view

Pulgram

1970

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Language, it is generally agreed, is the property of man alone on this earth. 'Animal language' is a metaphorical term at best, referring to nothing more elaborate than a set of vocal signals that some animals can produce so as to establish contact with their fellows. The range of these signals is niirrow, and their distinctiveness ,%ant. It is possible, indeed easy, to list exhaustively all the different utterances that even the most 'arti.;ulate' animal will ever produce in his life, and no member of the species will invent any new signals or utterances. But it is of course inconceivable to record or foretell the different utterances of one human in his lifetime, let alone Gose of the entire species. Animal signals serve to ammunce matters of simple, albeit often vital, import: the approach of an enemy, the staking out of a territorial claim (the singing of birds), the sole possession of food or of a mat{! henceforth imlcccscible to competitors, leadership over a group, and so forth.1) All such signals are of course species specific. They ue triggered by an attitude and a mood created by the animal's present perceived surroundings. Animal language is made up, then, not of information symbols, but of mood signals.zj

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