Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 1: The Role of the Environment. Quote 20

“It is the contingencies which prevail in a given verbal community which “generate sentences.” They shape and maintain the phonemic and syntactical properties of verbal behavior and account for a wide range of functional characteristics —from poetry to logic. They do so without the help of the mind of speaker or listener (141 [Skinner’s 1957 book, Verbal Behavior).” (p. 12)

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