Verbal behavior and the history of linguistics [PDF]
A recent paper by a historian of linguistics suggests that after many years of neglect linquists are finding value in the analysis of verbal behavior developed by B.F. Skinner.
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On the construction of the system for forensic psycholinguistics
Forensic psycholinguistics is an emerging interdisciplinary subject that makes use of the psychological methods to analyze the linguistic phenomena in legal activities and therefore it is of the multiple and cross-disciplinary nature.
Shaogang Yang, Zhuo Liu
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Domínio linguístico e sistemas sociais multiespécies
Linguists have always debated the ontology of human linguistic diversity, whether it is the superficial product of a common biological or psychological capacity, or whether it is inherent to the communicational needs and sociocultural ...
Beto Vianna
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Iranian Obese Women’s Lived Experiences of Social and Linguistic Factors Shaping Emotional Eating Behavior: A Phenomenological Study [PDF]
Background: Emotional eating is harmful to health and is highly prevalent in obese women. Hence, an awareness of factors underlying emotional eating is important for weight management and maintaining women’s health.
Ehteram Ebrahimi +3 more
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Could you mind your language? An investigation of communicators’ ability to inhibit linguistic bias. [PDF]
Three experiments that examine communicators' ability to inhibit linguistic bias are reported. Research has shown that communicators use more abstract language ( e. g., "Jamie is affectionate" vs.
Douglas, Karen +2 more
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Behavior Analysis and Linguistic Productivity [PDF]
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 ...
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Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO) [PDF]
Scientific studies of language behavior need to grapple with a large diversity of languages in the world and, for reading, a further variability in writing systems. Yet, the ability to form meaningful theories of reading is contingent on the availability
Stein R +30 more
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Internet Identifiability and Beyond: A Model of the Effects of Identifiability on Communicative Behavior [PDF]
K.M. Douglas and C. McGarty (in press) demonstrated that being identifiable to an ingroup audience in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) setting leads people to describe anonymous outgroup targets in more abstract, or stereotypical ways.
McGarty, Craig +5 more
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Linguistic Abnormalities in Isolated Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder.
BACKGROUND Patients with synucleinopathies frequently display language abnormalities. However, whether patients with isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) have prodromal language impairment remains unknown.
Dušek, Petr +17 more
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Dual mechanisms governing reward-driven perceptual learning [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
In this review, we explore how reward signals shape perceptual learning in animals and humans. Perceptual learning is the well-established phenomenon by which extensive practice elicits selective improvement in one’s perceptual discrimination of basic ...
Dongho Kim, Sam Ling, Takeo Watanabe
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