The origins of naming: a critique of self-listening

Article Abstract:

Horne and Lowe's account on naming is to be commended for its ability to make the language-development literature more understandable to behavior analysts. They improve experimental analysis of verbal behavior by relating the complex behaviors involved in verbal behavior, stimulus equivalence and rule governance. A major shortcoming of their paper, however, is its emphasis on the role of self-listening in the development of naming and the bidirectional stimulus relations in verbal behavior. Self-listening cannot be experimentally controlled.

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Separate repertoires or naming?

Article Abstract:

Horne and Lowe examined equivalence research in terms of listener behavior, the tact relation, echoic and self-echoic behavior, and conditioned perceptual effects. Their account is a logical and acceptable alternative to Sidman's investigation of equivalence as an elementary behavioral process and Hayes and Hayes' contextualist-Kantorian language. However, their higher order unit is not as precise as an analysis in terms of the repertoires that are supposed to make up the higher unit.

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