Question about intraverbals and Theory of Mind

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Hi Listmates,

I've been following this recent thread with interest...

Could anyone please point me to all the relevant articles in the Verbal

Behaviour journals on intraverbals and the impetus behind them? A brief

description of each article would also be much appreciated. I hate trawling.

(1/9/00)

Hi again all,

When doing one or two-word intraverbal fill-ins with my little girl, the

IMPRESSION is that sporadically they tranform - if that's the right word to

use - into spontaneous-like, almost complete sentence tacts.

I say spontaneous-like because she still hasn't got very creative with the

language she has. It's like a delayed echoic with meaning and some

understanding; she has learnt to apply a 'correct' sentence to a situation

whenever it comes up, but it's almost always the exact same sentence

structurally. To a casual first-time listener, it would sound like she's

making brilliant conversation. Though it's all pretty much rote and repetitive.

Su-ling