Effects of prompting on the generative “usage” of gramatical particles: Acquisition or maintenance?

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Emilio Ribes
Elda Cantú

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The “corred usage” of the article’s gender in pitrases was experimentally studied on three preschool children. The operant level of the grammatical par­ticle was measured without using neither reinforcement nor prompting pro-cedures. During the experimental conditions, only prompts were presented for each of the response classes under study: tacts and delayed tacts. As an effect of the presentation of the prompting stimuli, performance increased from zero to a hundred percent during the experimental periods. Results are analized in terms of the acction of the supplemental stimulation and its relationship to acquisition and maintenance of grammatical behavior.


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Ribes, E., & Cantú, E. (2011). Effects of prompting on the generative “usage” of gramatical particles: Acquisition or maintenance?. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 4(1), 59–66. https://doi.org/10.5514/rmac.v4.i1.23649