Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 2: General Problems. Quote 18

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A child acquires verbal behavior when relatively unpatterned vocalizations, selectively reinforced, gradually assume forms which produce appropriate consequences in a given verbal community. (p. 31)

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