Noam Chomsky’s 1959 review

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Noam Chomsky’s 1959 review is a landmark critique of B.F. Skinner’s behaviorist account of language that helped catalyze the cognitive revolution in psychology and linguistics.

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instanceOf book review
scholarly article
academicDiscipline generative linguistics
appearedInIssue Language issue 1
appearedInVolume Language volume 35
arguesAgainst radical behaviorism
stimulus–response explanations of language
arguesFor cognitive explanations of language
innate linguistic capacity
mental representations
author Noam Chomsky
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizes Skinner’s use of technical terms in Verbal Behavior
attempts to explain complex language behavior through reinforcement histories
operant conditioning as an explanation of language
field linguistics
philosophy of language
psychology
focusesOn behaviorist account of language
hasReputation foundational text of the cognitive revolution
landmark critique of behaviorism
historicalSignificance catalyzed the cognitive revolution in psychology
helped shift linguistics away from behaviorism
influencedField cognitive psychology
philosophy of mind
psycholinguistics
theoretical linguistics
influencedPerson Ross Quillian
surface form: George A. Miller

Jerry Fodor
Steven Pinker
introducesConcept poverty of the stimulus argument
language English
mainTopic cognitive psychology
critique of behaviorism
theory of language
pageCountApproximate approximately 50 pages
publicationType peer-reviewed journal article
publicationYear 1959
publishedIn Language
relatedTo Chomskyan linguistics
surface form: Chomskyan revolution in linguistics

Universal Grammar
mentalism in psychology
reviewedAuthor B. F. Skinner (born Burrhus Frederic Skinner)
surface form: B. F. Skinner
reviewOf Verbal Behavior
supportsView language as a product of an internal grammar
language as a rule-governed system

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