The influence of Bloomfield’s linguistics on Skinner

Passos, Maria de Lourdes R. da F.; Matos, María Amélia

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“…He considered meaning determined by the events that precede and follow an act of speech. Although it seems to have influenced Skinner (Passos & Matos, 2007), Bloomfiled's analysis of language was later overshadowed by the Chomskyan transformational generative grammar of the 1950s and subsequent generative syntactic and cognitive semantic theories within linguistics (Passos & Matos, 2007; Allwood & Gärdenfors, 1999; Kearns, 2000).…”

Section: Behavioral Threads In Philosophy Of Languagementioning

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Meaning in behavioral analysis.

Hegde¹

2009

The Journal of Speech and Language Pathology – Applied Behavior

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Meaning is a mentalistic concept in linguistics and philosophy. Linguists assert that a behavioral analysis cannot explain this abstract and deep feature of language. However, behavioral analysis can offer a natural science account of meaning. Meaning is a function of the controlling relation between the antecedents, the verbal behavior, and the consequences that follow. Meaning is indeed abstract because it is neither a mental entity, nor a property of language, nor a content of linguistic structure, nor is it what language represents. Gaining access to the meaning of utterances is the same as gaining access to their controlling relations. The concept of Meaning, as defined in terms of the controlling variables of verbal operants, serves no further purpose.

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Section: Behavioral Threads In Philosophy Of Languagementioning

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Meaning in behavioral analysis.

Hegde¹

2009

The Journal of Speech and Language Pathology – Applied Behavior

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“…As análises e conceitos de Bloomfield também influenciaram vários aspectos do trabalho de B. F. Skinner, como sua adoção do fonema e do morfema como unidades de análise do comportamento verbal (MATOS; PASSOS, 2006), sua concepção fisicalista de significado e de episódio verbal (PASSOS;MATOS, 2007), suas concepções de comunidade de fala e funções da linguagem (PASSOS, 2007), e do mecanismo linguístico da analogia na análise da criatividade linguística (MATOS; PASSOS, 2010), entre outros. Coseriu (1986) considera Bloomfield "un lingüista 'euro-americano' conocedor de toda la tradición europea y americana… [en quien] confluyen Leonard Bloomfield e o ensino de leitura N.…”

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Leonard Bloomfield e o ensino de leitura

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2015

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RESUMO: Este artigo explora a singularidade e potencialidade do trabalho do eminente linguista Leonard Bloomfield sobre ensino de leitura, elaborado no período de 1920-1940 e publicado postumamente em 1961 como Let’s Read: A Linguistic Approach. Baseado no ensino do princípio alfabético (as relações sistemáticas grafema-fonema envolvidas na leitura de textos com escrita alfabética), cuja importância é amplamente aceita entre pesquisadores no campo do ensino de leitura, o método utiliza pares mínimos de palavras escritas apresentadas numa sequência de ensino que contribui para o aprendizado sem erros, alimentando a motivação do aprendiz. Experiências e experimentos no ensino da leitura do inglês indicaram a efetividade do método, que ainda não tem paralelo na língua portuguesa. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Ensino de leitura; escrita alfabética; linguística estrutural; Leonard Bloomfield.

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“…The influence of Bloomfield’s analysis of language on Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior has been pointed out with regard to the following topics: use of the analogy model to explain, in part, the creativity of verbal behavior (Matos & Passos, 2004); the phoneme as a unit of analysis (Passos & Matos, 1998; Joseph, Love & Taylor, 2001); as well as science and scientific method, verbal episode, and meaning (Passos & Matos, submitted). These authors wrote on complementary subject matters: Bloomfield studied the language – or the practices of the verbal community, as Skinner prefers to call it – while Skinner studied the individual speaker’s verbal behavior, for which the practices of the verbal community are pre-requisite (Passos & Matos, submitted).…”

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Bloomfield and Skinner: Speech-community, functions of language, and scientific activity.

Passos¹

2007

The Journal of Speech and Language Pathology – Applied Behavior

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The approaches of Bloomfield and Skinner on the topics of speech-community, functions of language, and language and scientific activity are characterized; a comparative analysis follows; and approximations between the two authors are pointed out. The most important approximations are the verbal community as the ultimate source of language; the main function of language of obtaining practical effects in the world; the characterization of a considerable part of scientific activity as verbal; and the scientific activity as being deeply committed with successful action. The difference found is related to the subject matter: Bloomfield describes the system of the language of the community, and Skinner does the functional analysis of the repertoire of the individual.

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The influence of Bloomfield’s linguistics on Skinner

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Meaning in behavioral analysis.

Meaning in behavioral analysis.

Leonard Bloomfield e o ensino de leitura

Bloomfield and Skinner: Speech-community, functions of language, and scientific activity.

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