35.4 More Fragmentary Sources of Strength and Alliteration
Having said “faint” provides a formal (echoic) additional source of strength for the first part of the response “fresh,” but exerts no control over the other response forms, “new” and “beginning.” Therefore, the response “fresh” is somewhat more likely to occur because of multiple sources of strength.
Fragmentary Source of Strength
A type of stimulus control with the following features:
The response form is multiply controlled
At least one of the controlling variables strengthens only one part of the response form
Which types of elementary verbal relationships are involved
The response topography
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