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The Analysis of Verbal Behavior

TAVB Table of Contents

Volume 24, 2008

Nassim C. Elias and Celso Goyos, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil, Muriel Saunders and Richard Saunders, University of Kansas, Teaching Manual Signs to Adults With Mental Retardation Using Matching-to-Sample Procedures and Stimulus Equivalence

Megan M. Ziomek and Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, Southern Illinois University, Investigating the Acquisition, Generalization, and Emergence of Untrained Verbal Operants for Mands Acquired Using the Picture Exchange Communication System in Adults With Severe Developmental Disabilities

Philip N. Chase, David W. Ellenwood, and Gregory Madden, West Virginia University, A Behavior Analytic Analogue of Learning to Use Synonyms, Syntax, and Parts of Speech

Maria Martha Costa Hübner, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, John Austin, Western Michigan University, Caio F. Miguel, California State University, Sacramento,The Effects of Praising Qualifying Autoclitics on the Frequency of Reading

Matthew P. Normand, University of the Pacific, Erica S. Severtson and Gracie A. Beavers, Florida Institute of Technology, A Functional Analysis of Non-Vocal Verbal Behavior of a Young Child With Autism

Heather K. Jennett, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Sandra L. Harris and Lara Delmolino, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Discrete Trial Instruction vs. Mand Training for Teaching Children With Autism to Make Requests

Christopher Bloh, Kutztown University, Assessing Transfer of Stimulus Control Procedures Across Learners With Autism

R. Douglas Greer, Columbia University Teachers College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Lynn Yuan, The Fred S. Keller School, How Kids Learn to Say the Darnedest Things: The Effects of Multiple Exemplar Instruction on the Emergence of Novel Verb Usage

Richard A. Stock, University of British Columbia, Kimberly A. Schulze, St. Cloud State University, and Pat Mirenda, University of British Columbia,A Comparison of Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing, Standard Echoic Training, and Control Procedures on the Vocal Behavior of Children With Autism

Regina A. Carroll and Kevin P. Klatt, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Using Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing and Direct Reinforcement to Teach Vocal-Verbal Behavior to Young Children With Autism

Jonathan C. Baker, Linda A. LeBlanc, and Paige B. Raetz, Western Michigan University, A Behavioral Conceptualization of Aphasia

Judah B. Axe, The Ohio State University, Conditional Discrimination in the Intraverbal Relation: A Review and Recommendations for Future Research

Volume 23, 2007

Jack Michael, Western Michigan University, Editorial

Soyoung Yoon, Hawthorne County Day School, and Gina M. Feliciano, Shema Kolainu Hear Our Voices, Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing and Subsequent Mand Acquisition of Children with Various Levels of Verbal Repertoires

Raymond S. Weitzman, California State University, Fresno, Some Issues in Infant Speech Perception: Do the Means Justify the Ends?

Barry Eshkol Adelman, Western Michigan University, An Underdiscussed Aspect of Chomsky (1959)

Aynsley K. Verbeke, Garry L. Martin, C. T. Yu, and Toby L. Martin, University of Manitoba, and St. Amant Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Does ABLA Test Performance on the ABLA Test Predict Picture Receptive Name Recognition with Persons with Severe Developmental Disabilities?

Yukiko Washio, and Ramona Houmanfar, University of Nevada, Reno, Role of Contextual Control in Second Language Performance

Lyle K. Grant, Athabasca University, The Veils of Clio: Dimensions of a Behavioral Narratology

Carol A. Fiorile, and R. Douglas Greer, Teachers College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, The Induction of Naming in Children with No Prior Tact Responses as a Function of Multiple Exemplar Histories of Instruction

Emily J. Sweeney-Kerwin, Vincent J. Carbone, Leigh O'Brien, Gina Zecchin, and Marietta N. Janecky, Carbone Clinic, Transferring Control of the Mand to the Motivating Operation in Children with Autism

Steven J. Ward, M.A., Pamela J. Osnes, Ph.D., and James W. Partington, Ph.D., The Effects of a Delay of Noncontingent Reinforcement during a Pairing Procedure in the Development of Stimulus Control of Automatically Reinforced Vocalizations

Tore Vignes, Stavanger Hospital Trust, Habilitation Services, A Comparison of Topography-based and Selection-based Verbal Behavior in Typically Developed Children and Developmentally Disabled Persons with Autism

Traci M. Cihon, The Ohio State University, A Review of Training Intraverbal Repertoires: Can Precision Teaching Help?

Volume 22, 2006

Jack Michael, Western Michigan University, Editorial

Maria Amelia Matos and Alessandra Lopes Avanzi, Universidade de São Paulo, and William J. McIlvane, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Shriver Center, Rudimentary Reading Repertoires via Stimulus Equivalence and Recombination of Minimal Verbal Units

Janet I. Yi, LeeAnn Christian, Glenda Vittimberga, and Barry Lowenkron, California State University, Los Angeles, Generalized Negatively Reinforced Manding in Children with Autism

Rachael A. Sautter and Linda A. LeBlanc, Western Michigan University, Empirical Applications of Skinner’s Analysis of Verbal Behavior with Humans

Linda A. LeBlanc, Western Michigan University, John Esch, Esch Behavior Consultants, Inc., and Tina M. Sidener and Amanda M. Firth, Western Michigan University, Behavioral Language Interventions for Children with Autism: Comparing Applied Verbal Behavior and Naturalistic Teaching Approaches

Alicia M. Alvero, Queens College of the City University of New York, and John Austin, Western Michigan University, An Implementation of Protocol Analysis and the Silent Dog Method in the Area of Behavioral Safety

Matthew P. Normand and Melissa L. Knol, Florida Institute of Technology, The Effects of a Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing Procedure on the Unprompted Vocalizations of a Young Child Diagnosed with Autism

A. Charles Catania, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Words as Behavior

A. Charles Catania, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Antecedents and Consequences of Words

Frank Hammonds, Auburn University, Toward an "Awareness" of the Relationship between Task Performance and Own Verbal Accounts of that Performance

R. Douglas Greer, Teachers College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, Summary and Commentary on D. and S. Premack’s Original Intelligence

David W. Sidener, Garden Academy, A Beginner's Overview of Joint Control: An Elaboration of Lowenkron’s Model of Joint (Stimulus) Control

Barry Lowenkron, University of California, Los Angeles, An Introduction to Joint Control

Barry Lowenkron, University of California, Los Angeles, Joint Control and the Selection of Stimuli from Their Description

Anhvinh N. Wright, Fairfax County Public Schools, The Role of Modeling and Automatic Reinforcement in the Construction of the Passive Voice

David W. Sidener and Jack Michael, Western Michigan University, Generalization of Relational Matching to Sample in Children: A Direct Replication

Rick D. Gutierrez, California State University, Los Angeles, The Role of Rehearsal in Joint Control

Joyce C. Tu, Center for Behavioral Services, Inc., The Role of Joint Control in the Manded Selection Responses of Both Vocal and Non-vocal Children with Autism

David C. Palmer, Smith College, Joint Control: A Discussion of Recent Research