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EQUIVALENCE CLASS FORMATION IN LANGUAGE‐ABLE AND LANGUAGE‐DISABLED CHILDREN
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Stimulus equivalence seems to have relevance to the study of semantics and of language more generally. If so, there may be a relation between language use and the demonstration of stimulus equivalence. This was examined in three groups of children ranging in chronological age and matched on a conventional measure of mental age: normally developing preschoolers, retarded children who used speech or signs spontaneously and appropriately, and retarded children who did not. All children were taught a series of four related discriminations and were then tested to determine if classes of equivalent stimuli had formed. All of the language‐able children (retarded and normal) formed equivalence classes, whereas none of the language‐disabled children did so. Although the exact nature of the relation between stimulus equivalence and language remains to be clarified, these results support the view that stimulus equivalence is a phenomenon with relevance to language.
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- Devany, J. M., Hayes, S. C., & Nelson, R. O.
- Venue
- Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1986-11
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 243-257
- ISSN
- 0022-5002 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-3711
- OpenAlex
- W1990445198
- Cited by
- 462
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 14.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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