Analysis of the Acquisition of Verbal Operants in a Child from 17 Months to 2 Years of Age

被引：0
作者：
Adriana Cunha Cruvinel
Maria Martha Costa Hübner
机构：
[1] University of São Paulo,
来源：
The Psychological Record | 2013年 / 63卷
关键词：
verbal behavior; language acquisition; preschool children; verbal operants;
D O I：
暂无
中图分类号：
学科分类号：
摘要：
The purpose of this study was to longitudinally investigate the acquisition of verbal operants in a typically developing child from 17 months to 2 years of age. Verbal responses emitted by the child and his caregivers in a natural setting were categorically analyzed based on Skinner’s (1957) verbal operants. Possible interaction patterns in the acquisition of verbal behavior were investigated. The results showed an abrupt increase in the cumulative frequency of tact, mand, echoic, and intraverbal categories after 20 months of age. This increase was also simultaneously noticed in the emission of the same categories by the caregivers. The most frequent category of the child was tact, and the most frequent category emitted by the caregivers was mand. The results suggest that caregivers arrange contingencies for the acquisition of verbal operants in the repertoire of the child.
引用
收藏
页码：735 / 750
页数：15
相关论文
共 24 条
  • [1] Brown R(1964)Three processes in the child’s acquisition of syntax Harvard Educational Review 35 133-151
  • [2] Bellugi U(2007)O conceito de audiência e os múltiplos controles do comportamento verbal [The concept of audience and verbal behavior’s multiple control] Revista Brasileira de Terapia Comportamental e Cognitiva [Brazilian Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy] 9 349-360
  • [3] Fonai A C V(1981)Terminological and conceptual revision in the experimental analysis of language development: Why? Behaviorism 9 25-53
  • [4] Sério T M A P(1984)Verbal behavior Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 42 363-376
  • [5] Lee V L(2011)The multiple control of verbal behavior The Analysis of Verbal Behavior 27 3-22
  • [6] Michael J(1976)Processes of language teaching and training in the interactions of mother-child dyads Child Development 47 1064-1078
  • [7] Michael J(1978)Determiners and consequences of verbal behaviors of young children and their mothers Developmental Psychology 14 537-545
  • [8] Palmer D C(1980)Relantionships between parental input frequencies and children’s language acquisition: A reanalysis of Browns’s data Journal of Chisd Language 7 105-118
  • [9] Sundberg M L(1983)A behavior analysis of controversial topics in first language acquisition: Reinforcements, corrections, modeling, input frequencies, and the three term contingency pattern Journal of Psycholingistic Research 12 129-155
  • [10] Moerk E L(1985)Analytic, synthetic, abstracting, and word class defining aspects of verbal mother child interactions Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 14 263-287
123