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50 Years of ERIC
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Schoneberger, Ted – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2010
Three popular assertions have hindered the promotion of an empiricist approach to language acquisition: (a) that Brown and Hanlon (1970) claimed to offer data that parents do not reinforce their children's grammaticality; (b) that Brown and Hanlon also claimed to offer data that parents do not provide negative evidence (i.e., corrective feedback)…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Nature Nurture Controversy, Literature Reviews, Reinforcement
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Schoneberger, Ted – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2005
In "What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered" (1999) Fiona Cowie addresses three questions: (1) What is nativism? (2) What is meant by calling some trait "innate"? and (3) What types of evidence should be offered when claiming innateness? This review concentrates on these questions as they pertain to Chomsky's faculties-based account of language…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Brain, Educational Philosophy, Epistemology
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Palmer, David C.; Eshleman, John; Brandon, Paul; Layng, T. V. Joe; McDonough, Christopher; Michael, Jack; Schoneberger, Ted; Stemmer, Nathan; Weitzman, Ray; Normand, Matthew – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
In the fall of 2003, the authors corresponded on the topic of private events on the listserv of the Verbal Behavior Special Interest Group. Extracts from that correspondence raised questions about the role of response amplitude in determining units of analysis, whether private events can be investigated directly, and whether covert behavior…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Verbal Stimuli, Reinforcement, Behavior Theories