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How Much of Language Acquisition Does Operant Conditioning Explain?

Since the 1950s, when Chomsky argued that Skinner’s arguments could not explain syntactic acquisition, psychologists have generally avoided explicitly invoking operant or instrumental conditioning as a learning mechanism for language among human children. In this article, we argue that this is a mis...

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Published in:Front Psychol
Main Authors: Sturdy, Christopher B., Nicoladis, Elena
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5671510/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29163295
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01918
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