Autoclitics of Negation and Assertion
Broadly speaking, the autoclitic, in Skinner’s lexicon, is verbal behavior about one’s own verbal behavior. The verbal community wants to know, so to speak, some of the variables that caused …
Broadly speaking, the autoclitic, in Skinner’s lexicon, is verbal behavior about one’s own verbal behavior. The verbal community wants to know, so to speak, some of the variables that caused …
1 In my advanced verbal behavior class at Western New England University, we like to begin with the most general question one can ask when trying to understand something about …
Apparently, Lawrence was right. Visitations by zombies to the streets of Rome has happened before. Here’s how Shakespeare reported the “Caesar incident” in the opening scene of Hamlet: In the …
5 I am not the first person to wonder, “What is the function of asking Right? in the middle of a sustained flow of verbal behavior?” As the internet is …
As I pointed out in a 2023 paper, the principal limitation of Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior is that it fails to address grammar. To put it somewhat differently, it …
A correspondent asked, “From a behavioral perspective, what is a pronoun?” This was my response (lightly edited): Several possible responses came to mind. A) It’s not a behavioral concept, so …
9 Despite the suspicions of vulgar-minded behavior analysts, Skinner’s term “autoclitic” has distinguished antecedents. The “enclitic,” is a long-established grammatical term for a morphological unit that does not stand alone …
2 I was walking across campus one day when I saw Ingrid crossing the sidewalk a hundred feet or more ahead of me. She had been a prize student in …
3 The Sept. 5, 2008 edition of [the Onion] reported that a damp stain on a concrete wall in Tennessee bore a striking resemblance to the features of Charles Darwin. …