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Article #546Re: Language versus concept
From: Glen M. Sizemore
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:23
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:23
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"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote in message news:7onlzv12ejod$.21q9et8hy7e5$.dlg@40tude.net... > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:27:54 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels" > <grammatim@verizon.net> wrote in > <news:1188962874.711693.93360@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> > in sci.cognitive,sci.lang,bionet.neuroscience: > >> On Sep 4, 5:40 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@csuohio.edu> wrote: > > [...] > >>> The article is at >>> <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&ar...> >>> in the form of 17 scanned pages; there's also a link by >>> which one can download it as a 2.9M .pdf. > >>> 'On Chomsky's review of Skinner's _Verbal Behavior_' >>> Reviewed by Kenneth MacCorquodale >>> J Exp Anal Behav. 1970 January; 13(1): 83-99. > >> Thank you. Did it look worth reading? > > I just skimmed the first few pages, so take anything I say > with a grain of salt, but it seemed to me that one would > have to be familiar with VB to get much out of the review: a > good chunk of MacC's argument appears to be that Chomsky > either didn't understand or misrepresented what Skinner was > actually saying. I've not read VB (and know damn-all about > behaviorism anyway), so I'm not part of the intended > audience. But have you ever told students that Chomsky demolished Skinner's position etc.? The intended audience was anyone interested, well, verbal behavior - what many people would call "language acquisition" and "language" etc. It didn't work out that way of course, and now we have cognitive "science." > > Brian
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