THE EFFECTS OF RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE TRAINING ON ARTICULATION1

The present study attempted to assess one condition of language exposure that might be operative in a normal environment, and experimentally determine its relevance to the acquisition of productive speech. The results demonstrated that the development of receptive language skills can be functionally...

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Published inJournal of applied behavior analysis Vol. 4; no. 4; pp. 291 - 298
Main Authors Mann, Ronald A., Baer, Donald M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1971
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ISSN0021-8855
1938-3703
DOI10.1901/jaba.1971.4-291

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Summary:The present study attempted to assess one condition of language exposure that might be operative in a normal environment, and experimentally determine its relevance to the acquisition of productive speech. The results demonstrated that the development of receptive language skills can be functionally related to productive speech. Specifically, the data indicated that exposure to words that have stimulus control over a subject's nonverbal pointing behavior can facilitate later articulation of those same words. Thus, this study draws attention to the fact that at least some classes of operants, in this case verbal, can be affected not only by their consequences, but by not obviously related antecedent events as well.
Bibliography:This study is based upon a thesis submitted by the senior author to the Department of Human Development, University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree. The research was supported in part by the Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare through the Kansas Research Center for Early Childhood Education; a component of the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education (OEC‐3‐7‐70706‐3118). Preparation of this manuscript was supported by the Bureau of Child Research, PHS Training Grant HD 00183.
ISSN:0021-8855
1938-3703
DOI:10.1901/jaba.1971.4-291