# Verbal Behavior **Domain:** Psychology / Linguistics **Doc Type:** Book **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[B. F. Skinner]], [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Behaviorism]], [[Schedule and Loop]] ## Definition Verbal Behavior is B. F. Skinner's 1957 attempt to analyze language through behavioral contingencies and reinforcement history. ## Schedule–Loop Context Its reception marks the limits of schedule-only explanation and the institutional ascent of internal models in linguistics and cognitive science. ## Backlinks - [[Schedule and Loop]] - [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]] - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]