So in 1959 a linguist named Noam Chomsky wrote a review of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior and Chomsky’s review was fairly devastating and he picked apart a lot of ways that language acquisition doesn’t seem to follow the principles of operant conditionin

A Review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior Noam Chomsky In Leon A. Jakobovits and Murray S. Miron (eds.), Readings in the Psychology of Language, Prentice-Hall, 1967, pp. 142-143. Preface. Rereading this review after eight years, I find little of subst