A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior

By Noam Chomsky, In Leon A. Jakobovits, M. S. Miron. 1980

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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Grounded Language Learning in a Simulated 3D World (2017, background): “ visual stimuli that constantly change based on the exploration policy of the agent. The idea that reinforcement-style learning could play a role in language learning has been considered for decades (Chomsky, 1959). Recently, however, RL agents controlled by deep neural nets have been trained to sol”
Scientific and Pragmatic Challenges for Bridging Education and Neuroscience (2008, background): “However, it has proved quite difficult to build from data about reinforcement learning, for example, to a satisfactory theory of language acquisition (Chomsky, 1959).”
Relational Frame Theory: An Overview of the Controversy (2009, background): “Whereas behavior analysts have grown accustomed to harsh criticism from those outside their discipline or worldview (e.g., Chomsky, 1959), it is less common for a behavioral theory to generate so much intense debate within the field itself.”
Explaining ‘I Can’t Draw’: Parallels between the Structure and Development of Language and Drawing (2012, background): “3 3 It is important to distinguish an ‘impoverished’ learning environment from the argument of a ‘poverty of stimulus’ discussed in language acquisition [e.g., Chomsky, 1959; Pinker, 1994].”
Music and Language: A Developmental Comparison (2004, unknown): “The classic formulation of this process comes from Chomsky (1959), who noted that while no listener had ever heard the sentence “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously,” that sentence was nevertheless grammatical (compare it with the ungrammatical “Furiously green sleep ideas colorless”).”
The duality of mind: an historical perspective (2009, background): “Triumph turned to disaster, however, when a young linguist called Noam Chomsky wrote one of the most devastating and influential book reviews in the history of academia ( Chomsky 1959 ).”
Relational Frame Theory: Some Implications for Understanding and Treating Human Psychopathology (2004, unknown): “Although clinicians were developing successful behavioral treatment regimes, the very foundation of the science itself, vis-à-vis human psychology, was being questioned, most notably by Chomsky (1959).”
Event categorisation and language: A cross-linguistic study of motion (2010, background): “Furthermore, every event can be construed from multiple perspectives and at various levels of detail and linguistic representations reflect this freedom of perspective (compare walking, tramping, and stomping; Chomsky, 1959; Gleitman, 1990).”