Editing Verbal Behavior (section)

== Current research ==

Current research in verbal behavior is published in ''The Analysis of Verbal Behavior''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abainternational.org/TAVB.asp |title=Journals of the Association for Behavior Analysis |publisher=Abainternational.org |access-date=2012-03-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306110601/http://www.abainternational.org/TAVB.asp |archive-date=March 6, 2009 }}</ref> (TAVB), and other Behavior Analytic journals such as ''The [[Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior]]'' (JEAB) and the ''[[Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis]]'' (JABA). Also research is presented at poster sessions and conferences, such as at regional Behavior Analysis conventions<ref>see the California Association for Behavior Analysis (CalABA) for example</ref> or Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abainternational.org |title=Association for Behavior Analysis International |publisher=Abainternational.org |access-date=2012-03-16}}</ref> conventions nationally or internationally. There is also a Verbal Behavior Special Interest Group (SIG)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://psyc.csustan.edu/verbalbehavior/ |title=Verbal Behavior-Special Interest Group |publisher=Psyc.csustan.edu |access-date=2012-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128031246/http://psyc.csustan.edu/verbalbehavior/ |archive-date=2012-01-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> of the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA) which has a mailing list.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://lists.csustan.edu/mailman/listinfo/verbalbeh-l | title=Verbalbeh-l Info Page}}</ref>

''Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention''<ref>{{cite web|author=Joe Cautilli, Copyright,2009-Website designed and maintained by BAO Journals |url=http://www.baojournal.com/ |title=See Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention |publisher=Baojournal.com |access-date=2012-03-16}}</ref> and the ''Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis''<ref>{{cite web|author=Joe Cautilli, Copyright,2009-Website designed and maintained by BAO Journals |url=http://www.baojournal.com/ |title=See Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis |publisher=Baojournal.com |access-date=2012-03-16}}</ref> both publish clinical articles on interventions based on verbal behavior.

Skinner has argued that his account of verbal behavior might have a strong evolutionary parallel.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Skinner, B.F. |title=The Evolution of Verbal Behavior |journal=J Exp Anal Behav |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=115–22 |date=January 1986 |pmid=16812440 |pmc=1348216 |doi=10.1901/jeab.1986.45-115}}</ref> In Skinner's essay, ''Selection by Consequences'' he argued that operant conditioning was a part of a three-level process involving genetic evolution, cultural evolution and operant conditioning. All three processes, he argued, were examples of parallel processes of selection by consequences. David L. Hull, Rodney E. Langman and Sigrid S. Glenn have developed this parallel in detail.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hull |first1=David |last2=Langman |first2=Rodney E. |last3=Glenn |first3=Sigrid S. |year=2001 |title=A general account of selection: Biology, immunology, and behavior |journal=Behavioral and Brain Sciences |volume=24 |pmid=11682800 |issue=3 |pages=511–28 |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=88687 |doi=10.1017/S0140525X0156416X|s2cid=144016029 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> This topic continues to be a focus for behavior analysts.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Greer |first=R.D. |year=2006 |title=The Evolution of Verbal Behavior in Children |journal=Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=111–50 |doi=10.1037/h0100194}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cautilli |first1=J.D. |last2=Hantula |first2=D.A. |year=2004 |title=Defining The Verbal Specialist: An Adaptive-Evolutionary View of Deception and Counter-Control |journal=The Behavior Analyst Today |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=204–14 |doi=10.1037/h0100032}}</ref> Behavior analysts have been working on developing ideas based on Verbal Behaviour for fifty years, and despite this, experience difficulty explaining generative verbal behavior.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chase | first1= PN |last2= Ellenwood |first2= DW| last3= Madden | first3= G |title=A behavior analytic analogue of learning to use synonyms, syntax, and parts of speech |journal=Anal Verbal Behav |volume=24 |pages=31–54 |year=2008 | issue= 1 |pmid=22477402 |pmc=2779919 | doi= 10.1007/BF03393055 }}</ref>