An Interactive Modeling Technique for Acquisition of Communication Skills: Separation of "Labeling" and "Requesting" in a Psittacine Subject.

Pepperberg, Irene M.

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ERIC Number: EJ370521

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Publication Date: 1988

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An Interactive Modeling Technique for Acquisition of Communication Skills: Separation of "Labeling" and "Requesting" in a Psittacine Subject.

Pepperberg, Irene M.

Applied Psycholinguistics, v9 n1 p59-76 Mar 1988

An African gray parrot, taught to employ the vocalization "want" before an object label so as to discriminate functional labeling from requesting, subsequently generalized "want" to novel situations. The findings of the study indicate that the training procedure might be applicable to intervention programs for humans with specific communicative deficits. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Correlation, Generalization, Interaction, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Modeling (Psychology), Ornithology

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Language: English

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