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The Clash of the Giants Goes Beyond Teminological Differences: A Reply to Moerk

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Title The Clash of the Giants Goes Beyond Teminological Differences: A Reply to Moerk
 
Creator Street, Elizabeth M.
 
Description Moerk’ s (1992) article, “The Clash of Giants Over Terminological Differences,” disregards substantive differences between Skinner’ s and Chomsky’ s account of verbal behavior. Moerk’ s choice of the term “language” instead of “verbal behavior” exemplifies his neglect of distinctions important to behaviorists. His reconciliation of the roles of phylogenetic factors in Skinner’ s and Chomsky’ s accounts ignores a fundamental difference between the possibility and the probability of a response. Moerk’ s contention that behaviorists are uninterested in the fine-grained structures of behavior ignores the behavior distinction between the structure and function of a behavior.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
Date 1991-12-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/171
10.5210/bsi.v2i1.171
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 2, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1992)
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/171/2879