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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: BAAM 2018 RAOs and English Verbs V1, Relational Autoclitcs of Order and English Verbs English verbs English verbs are "traditionally" classified according to their associated clause patterns., The English "noun phrase" can be accounted for as the product of an RAO specific to the language. To explain, In simplified form, this RAO consists of three responses that are always emitted in the same order: Determiner, Adjective, and Noun., Verbs are responses which usually are emitted under tact or intraverbal control and name actions or states. Note 1: Actions and states are often associated with entities that have relations to these events. Such entities may be actors, undergoers, receivers, locations, and the like., Proposed by Skinner on p. 335 of VB to account for relational autoclitic effects of response seqeuences., This is apparent in Skinner's discussion of the autoclitic frame. He explained AFs as arrangements of specific responses that evoke specific relations to responses occurring at paticular positions in the sequence of responses. Comment: Skinner probably discussed the AF at this point because it is relatively easy to explain how they could be learned., Relational Autoclitcs of Order and English Verbs Verbs Verbs are responses which usually are emitted under tact or intraverbal control and name actions or states., An adjective is a response emitted at a position in an RAO that evokes an attributive relation to the entity named in the primary response. Comment: This is a basic principle of linguitic structural analysis., Determiners evoke appropriate listener behaviors relative to the identifiability of the entity named as the primary response (the noun). and Adjectives evoke appropriate listener responses relative to attributes of the entity named by the primary response., Relational Autoclitcs of Order and English Verbs Background on RAOs Proposed by Skinner on p. 335 of VB, Relational Autoclitcs of Order and English Verbs The autoclitic frame Autoclitics are self--attributing responses; i.e., they evoke appropriate listener responses to relations between concurrently emitted verbal responses., Respectively, these responses correspond to what are traditionally called nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs, the "traditional" parts of speech. Note 2: These responses have no essential qualities that define them as particular parts of speech. The POS of a response is assigned according to the position at which it is emitted., Skinner used an example of a transitive clause to introduce the RAO: The boy runs a store. A quote: Skinner p.335 of VB: The relational autoclitic of order carries a heavy burden: roughly speaking it must be clear that it is the boy who does the running and the store which is run., Adjectives evoke appropriate listener responses relative to attributes of the entity named by the primary response. and Nouns are the primary responses in this RAO. They are names for entities in the verbal community., Skinner did not return to the RAO and relate it to the AF. However: It is apparent that the AF can be interpreted as a sub-class of the RAO., Skinner p.335 of VB: The relational autoclitic of order carries a heavy burden: roughly speaking it must be clear that it is the boy who does the running and the store which is run. Implication 1: For the listener, the responses in the subject and object positions evoke "relations" relative to the response in the "verb" position. The boy acts on the store, the store undergoes the action. The verb can be considered the "primary response.", Sequences of verbal responses often imply relations between the stimuli evoking those responses. and Since these relations must be verbal responses to concurrently emitted verbal responses, and the affect the listerner's responses, they are autoclitics., Autoclitics are self--attributing responses; i.e., they evoke appropriate listener responses to relations between concurrently emitted verbal responses. Note: This is apparent in Skinner's discussion of the autoclitic frame. He explained AFs as arrangements of specific responses that evoke specific relations to responses occurring at paticular positions in the sequence of responses., Individual non-autoclitic verbal responses generally are tacts or emitted under intraverbal control. However Sequences of verbal responses often imply relations between the stimuli evoking those responses., Relational Autoclitcs of Order and English Verbs Reinterpreting the autoclitic frame Skinner did not return to the RAO and relate it to the AF., Reponse positions are significant in both AFs and RAOs. In English AFs the specified responses are emiited in particular position relative to the the responses being emiited. Comment: Because AFs and RAOs evoke relatonal autoclitic effects and are sensitive to the sequence of responses, they can be interpreted as two forms of the same verbal operant. It is tempting to call the RAO a "generalized" or "abstract" AF. However, since the two are the same except for the AF's specified responses, it would be best to interpret AFs as a subclass of RAOs. This eliminates the need to use a metaphor as a technical term. AFs can be called "partially specified RAOs."