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Matos, Maria Amelia; Passos, Maria de Lourdes – Behavior Analyst, 2010
The production of verbal operants not previously taught is an important aspect of language productivity. For Skinner, new mands, tacts, and autoclitics result from the recombination of verbal operants. The relation between these mands, tacts, and autoclitics is what linguists call "analogy," a grammatical pattern that serves as a foundation on…
Descriptors: Creativity, Verbal Stimuli, Grammar, Linguistics
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Carroll, Wayne R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Children's imitation of a model's sentence structure, word content and use of present, imperfect or future tense verbs was studied in third and fourth graders. (Authors)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grammar, Imitation, Language Acquisition