"Florida is fiftieth in the country for mental health care and one of the biggest flare ups that we saw after the tragedy was the fact that there were zero LGBTQ-competent and linguistically competent mental health services available to the individuals who were impacted directly ― and the broader community who has been traumatized by the tragedy".
Animals without language might have proto-religious experiences, but these are clearly not the same as those which a linguistically competent human has.
If machines are to become linguistically competent, we need to impart this knowledge to them.
On the one hand, expressions have a standing meaning fixed by convention and known to those who are linguistically competent.
Behavior Analysis is usually accused of not being able to account for the generalization of verbal behavior that is present in linguistically competent individuals.
Behavior Analysis has been accused of not being able to account for the generalization of verbal behavior that is present in linguistically competent individuals (Alessi, 1987; Mackay & Fields, 2009).
This acquired knowledge may be readily transferable when the participants find themselves in real-life situations which require them to do so, as nurses, according to Guttman (2004), need to be linguistically competent to meet the requirements of their profession.
And since language is our most natural and most versatile means of communication, linguistically competent computers would greatly facilitate our interaction with machines and software of all sorts, and put at our fingertips, in ways that truly meet our needs, the vast textual and other resources of the internet.
Being linguistically competent with terms for structural relations like correspondence does not force endorsement of claims that connect truth with correspondence; no one not already in the grip of the correspondence theory would suppose that they must endorse (17), and those who oppose it would certainly suppose otherwise.
We must provide medically accurate, culturally and linguistically competent healthcare information to public, particularly to our young people.
