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NOAM CHOMSKY ON LANGUAGE

Source: Wikipedia article on Noam Chomsky He is one of  fathers of modern linguistics. Avram Noam Chomsky
Full name	Avram Noam Chomsky
Born	7 December 1928 (1928-12-07) (age 81) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Era	20th / 21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Linguistics, Analytic
Main interests	Linguistics · Psychology Philosophy of language Philosophy of mind Politics · Ethics
Notable ideas	Generative grammar, universal grammar, transformational grammar, government and binding, X-bar theory, Chomsky hierarchy, context-free grammar, principles and parameters, the minimalist program, language acquisition device, poverty of the stimulus, Chomsky-Schützenberger theorem, Chomsky Normal Form, propaganda model

Avram Noam Chomsky (pronounced /ˌnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics.

3 Chomsky Articles - chomsky.info

·  Review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior. In Jakobovits & Miron (eds.), Readings in the Psychology of Language. 1967.
·  Three Models for the Description of Language. IRE Transactions on Information Theory. September, 1956.
·  Logical Syntax and Semantics. Language. January-March, 1955.
·  Systems of Syntactic Analysis. The Journal of Symbolic Logic. September, 1953.