Anna Ingeborg Petursdóttir, Alma Rún Ólafsdóttir, & Berglind Aradóttir. (2008)
The effects of tact and listener training on the emergence of bidirectional intraverbal relations.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,
41, 411-415.
We evaluated the effects of 2 types of training on the emergence of bidirectional intraverbal relations
with 4 typically developing children. Tact training involved reinforcing foreign-language vocalizations
in the presence of visual stimuli, and listener training involved reinforcing selections of visual stimuli
following vocal presentations of foreign-language words. Intraverbal relations were tested by instructing
participants to vocalize native-language equivalents of foreign-language words or vice versa. Both types
of training produced increases in intraverbal responding, but the emergent relations were not always
bidirectional.
DESCRIPTORS: emergent relations, foreign-language instruction, intraverbals, listener behavior, tacts