Re: A preliminary look at Spoonerisms

"Glen M. Sizemore" <gmsizemore2@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Instead, his view was that, for example, some
circumstance strengthens some core responses (let's look at tacts for the
moment) and then the core responses become temporally organized as a
function of contingencies that produce other units that we call grammar and
syntax (these are autoclitics). The utterance is often emitted as a complete
occurrence, not assembled after "the early parts" are emitted. Skinner felt
that Spoonerisms provided evidence that this, in fact, was the case since
later parts of the response appeared to exert control over earlier parts.

That seems like an over-analysis.

I'm not sure about Spooner. But for most people, spoonerisms are
used (and coined) because they are fun. When my father used to
mention "Thud and Blunder" movies, it was because he thought that
was a better description than "Blood and Thunder".

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