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Beginning of Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky was born on the 7th of December 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to his father William Chomsky, and mother Elsie Simonofsky, a middle-class Jewish family. From an early age, Chomsky was a talented child and gifted mind. This was the beginning of a great American linguist and creator of " Transformational Generative Grammar". McGilvray, James A. "Noam Chomsky". Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Dec. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. -
Gifted at a young age
Being gifted at a young age is an understatement for Chomsky, at "10 years old, he wrote an editorial for his school newspaper lamenting the fall of Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War and the rise of fascism in Europe". When Chomsky was only 13, he would go to New York City and read books that would eventually underline his political views later in life. McGilvray, James A. "Noam Chomsky". Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Dec. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. -
Still Bight while being young
Chomsky at the age of 16 attended the University of Pennsylvania although he found little interest in the school itself. Thinking of leaving the school crossed his mind for a few years until he decided to stay. Two years later Chomsky would meet after meeting the linguist Zellig S. Harris. This interaction would be the reason Chomsky studied Philosophy at the University. McGilvray, James A. "Noam Chomsky". Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Dec. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. -
Harvard
From 1951 to 1955, Chomsky would write his master thesis "The Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew", and "The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (LSLT)". This would later be published in part in 1975. Chomsky over years would adapt a lot of his thesis and ideas from Harris' viewpoints on the philosophy of science. McGilvray, James A. "Noam Chomsky". Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Dec. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. -
MIT
In 1956, a year after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with his Ph.D. Chomsky also became faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, he thought the position that he worked in was useless and offered him no challenges. While at the university, Chomsky's book Syntactic Structures would grant him the ability spread his knowledge and theories to undergrads at the University. MIT asked Chomsky and his coworker, Morris Halle to develop a new Graduate program. -
MIT continued...
While establishing this new Graduate program Chomsky and Halle caught the attention of several outstanding scholars, including Robert Lees, Jerry Fodor, Jerold Katz, and Paul Postal. McGilvray, James A. "Noam Chomsky". Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Dec. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. -
Theory of Language
In 1957, Noam Chomsky introduced the Theory of language or better referred to as the " Chomsky revolution". this theory has been stated to be on par or of equal caliber to Darwin's theory and Freud's theory of the unconscious. Prior to theory, many questions about communication lingered. Fox, M. (1998, Dec 05). A changed Noam Chomsky simplifies: [biography]. New York Times Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/changed-noam-chomsky-simplifies/docview/431088468/se-2?accountid=8289 -
Noam Chomsky Theory
Noam Chomsky's book, " Syntactic Structures" would lay down the foundation that contributed to the work of linguistics. He created the theory of Universal Grammar. This theory states that "the human brain contains an innate mental grammar that helps humans acquire language". Universal Grammar (UG) – World Englishes (gatech.edu) -
Professional Wave
"The publication of Aspects of the Theory of Syntax 1965 and Cartesian Linguistics 1966, Chomsky’s approach to the study of language and mind gained wider acceptance within linguistics". This was headway for Chomsky to be appointed full professor at MIT in 1961, Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics in 1966, and institute Professor in 1976, he retired in 2002. McGilvray, James A. "Noam Chomsky". Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Dec. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. -
YouTube- Noam Chomsky Grammar
This is a quick and easy video on the principle and idea, Transformational Generative Grammar that Noam Chomsky created.
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kooSTIMNYrg
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Noam Chomsky- Biography
This is a quick video of the life and accomplishments of the great American Linguist Noam Chomsky.
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyRvp6m5RN8 Here is also a video on Chomsky's language acquisition.
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cgpfw4z8cw&t=2s