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Training generative verb usage by imitation and reinforcement procedures.

J Schumaker1, J A Sherman

  • 1University of Kansas.

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|January 1, 1970
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This study demonstrates that imitation and reinforcement effectively teach children with intellectual disabilities verb tense production. Training specific verb tenses generalized to new verbs, showing generative language learning.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Special Education

Background:

  • Children with intellectual disabilities often face challenges in acquiring grammatical structures.
  • Verb tense production is a complex linguistic skill crucial for effective communication.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the efficacy of imitation and reinforcement procedures in teaching verb tense production.
  • To assess the generalization of learned verb tenses to untrained verbs in children with intellectual disabilities.

Main Methods:

  • A multiple baseline design was employed across four classes of verb inflections.
  • Training sessions focused on teaching past and present verb tenses using imitation and reinforcement.
  • Probe sessions assessed generalization to untrained verbs without reinforcement.

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Main Results:

  • Children successfully generalized trained past and present verb tenses to novel verbs within the same inflectional class.
  • Training across multiple inflectional classes resulted in correct tense production for each class.
  • The procedures proved effective in fostering generative use of verb inflections.

Conclusions:

  • Imitation and reinforcement are effective methods for teaching verb tense morphology to children with intellectual disabilities.
  • This approach facilitates the generalization of grammatical rules, promoting more robust language development.
  • The findings support the application of these techniques in educational and therapeutic settings for language acquisition.