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Avram "Noam" Chomsky
American born in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, Mr. Chomsky had a fairly normal childhood, if you consider going to an experimental elementary school normal. This possibly molded him into the free thinker he is know as today, this school was steered towards self direct learning and ones individual interests, compare to the standards we all learn today. Pictured: Young Noam Chomsky -
Developing Chomsky
Around the age of 16, Chomsky was ready for something new, he had excelled in school and education tenfold and wanted to see a new part of life. He danced on the line of join a kibbutz, which is a small knit Israeli community. This never happened because he sat down with a famous linguistics, Zellig S. Harris who shared the same political ideas as Chomsky. This sparked something in Chomsky to continue his path on with education. Pictured: Zellig S. Harris -
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Chomsky's Thoughts
Chomsky spent 4 years theorizing that languages and the basis of it, are in the human mind from birth and are unconscious constructions of grammar. In simple terms, a lot of the terms and verbiage in the English and other languages are already programmed into us at birth. -
Chomsky Theory
See the video below to get the best explanation on exactly Chomsky Language theory YouTube McGilvray, J. A. (n.d.). Linguistics of Noam Chomsky. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 11, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky/Linguistics