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🗣️ Related to verbal reply 🗣️ A verbal reply
intraverbal

intraverbal

1 9.9
About a spoken answer given after hearing other words, not by seeing things
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntrəˈvɜrbl/
  • Jargon
: intraverbal
  • There is also a systematic progression of moving toward more complex tact and intraverbal skills as children master earlier skills (see Sundberg & Michael, 2001).

Examples

  • Considering the functional and academic impact that preposition use has on intraverbal skills, it becomes important to determine efficient ways to promote the acquisition of prepositions for students with ID.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Skinner described four word types: (a) mand, a request; (b) tact, a comment used to gain attention or share an experience; (c) intraverbal, a response to a question; and (d) echoic, a word that is simply repeated.

    Academic text (2014)

  • An example of an intraverbal response is when a student answers a question based on previous discussion.

  • In therapy, teaching children to provide intraverbal responses can enhance their conversational abilities.

  • During class, the teacher encouraged intraverbal exchanges by prompting students with questions that related to the lesson.

Surface Forms

intraverbal positive

Morphology

intraverbal = verbal (transparent) = intra + verbal

The meaning is clearly derived from the prefix 'intra-' meaning 'within' and 'verbal' meaning 'relating to words'.

Etymology

Intraverbal comes from the parts intra- meaning 'within' and verbal meaning 'word' or 'speech' (as in verb). So intraverbal as an adjective describes speech that happens 'within' other speech — a response caused by words rather than by things you can see.