Nomeação em crianças pequenas
Resumen
The gap left by Skinner's lack of analysis of listener behavior in 1957 led researchers to
study listener behavior, its development and its role in verbal behavior. Considering the
role of listener as a requirement for the acquisition and maintenance of speaker behavior,
it seems essential to study listener behavior as a condition to explain verbal behavior.
Therefore, this thesis was divided into two studies. Study 1 was a conceptual work whose
objectives were i) to map and characterize the Theory of Naming, analyzing its
developments in relation to its conceptual and empirical aspects and its theoretical and
empirical limitations and ii) to present and discuss the advances brought in the Theory of
Development of Verbal Behavior, in relation to the Theory of Naming. Study 2 was a
case study of a 27-month-old child at risk for language development according to the
Denver II Developmental Screening Test. The participant was exposed to a teaching
procedure structured in MEI with the objective of verifying the emission of the echoing
behavior and of selecting for the emergence of naming, relating the child's performance
in the teaching procedure with the data collected by the Denver II Test. It is concluded
that future studies can use verbal landmarks and their prerequisites to identify the
behaviors installed in the children's repertoire and, thus, from this point onwards to the
proposition of child development programs that aim at the teaching/emergence of naming.
. In addition, future empirical studies can verify the behaviors of imitation and generalized
imitation before exposing children to the structured teaching procedure in MEI, so that
the operants in rotation are in accordance with the skills already identified and to be taught
for emergence of appointment.
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