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. 2003;19:11–18. doi: 10.1007/BF03392978

Behavior analysis and linguistic productivity

Richard W Malott
PMCID: PMC2755422  PMID: 22477252

Abstract

The greatest intellectual challenge to the field of behavior analysis may be understanding linguistic productivity (e.g., being able to correctly say and understand novel sentences). One of the main issues concerning linguistic productivity is whether behavioral productivity is, itself, a fundamental behavioral process, as claimed by the proponents of relational frame theory, or whether we can understand linguistic productivity in terms of more fundamental behavioral principles.

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