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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.12.007

Innovation or “Old Wine in a New Glass”—On the Use of Neologism in Skinner’s Verbal Behavior

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Verbal behavior, from the functional perspective, analyzes the cause-and-effect relations of human verbal behavior, in which the key to understand its theoretical framework is on the use of neologistic terms. Taking it as the point-of-departure, the paper discusses the misunderstandings of Skinner’s behavioral theory initiated by Noam Chomsky and points out the great innovation and insightfulness of Skinner’s work.

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JIANG Daohua . Innovation or “Old Wine in a New Glass”—On the Use of Neologism in Skinner’s Verbal Behavior[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2015 , 15(12) : 31 -37 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.12.007

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