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We pick up the names of objects without autoclitic help when we observe someone manipulating objects while also naming them. Thus we may “learn the name of” a Jones-plug by watching someone working with electrical apparatus while describing his own behavior as he does so. The same correlation of verbal and nonverbal events plus an autoclitic occurs in the ostensive definition This is a Jones-plug. The effect upon the listener is not only to establish Jones-plug as an appropriate tact but to set up nonverbal behavior in response to similar stimuli, for example, behaving correctly when asked Please hand me a Jones-plug. (p. 360)