Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 4: Verbal Behavior under the Control of Verbal Stimuli. Quote 21

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The development of a large echoic repertoire appropriate to a given language makes it harder to echo verbal stimuli which do not belong in the language. (p. 61)

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Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 4: Verbal Behavior under the Control of Verbal Stimuli. Quote 22
The first echoic operants acquired by a child tend to be fairly large integral patterns, and they are of little help in permitting him to echo novel patterns. A unit repertoire at the level of separable “speech-sounds” develops later and often quite slowly … This minimal echoic repertoire is optimal for evoking a response in order to set up other kinds of stimulus control. (p. 62)
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