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Chomsky Hierarchy
The Chomsky Hierarchy, also known as the Chomsky-Schützenberger Hierarchy, Chomsky classifies the formal language of linguistics and computer sciences into 4 categories: type-0 grammars, type-1 grammars, type-2 grammars, and type-3 grammars. This process is used to generate formal words into regular languages. Type-0 grammars contain all formal language that can be read by Turing Machines, also known as Turing-recognizable languages (Power, 2002). -
Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky was a major contributor to linguistics. Among the many influential works that he published, the Syntactic Structures is considered one of his most significant contribution to linguistics. Originally given as a speech at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his publishing was about the understanding of the sentence structures of formal language used in mathematics and sciences (McGilvray, 2018). -
Universal Grammar
Universal Grammar is a theory proposed by Noam Chomsky that believes in humans possessing the native ability of acquiring language. These abilities are also believed to be separate from applications of physical experiences. When children mature over time, they develop linguistic stimuli that allow them to develop syntactic rules that conform to universal grammar. This theory is also known as “mental Grammar” (Barsky, 2017). -
Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures.
Lectures on Government and Binding (LGB) was published in 1981, and is comprised of lectures Chomsky gave at a conference in Italy., Chomsky introduced his syntax theory, which proved to be popular among linguists who worked with transformational grammar. In his works he provides background knowledge of his theories such as: Aspects of Theory Syntax, Syntactic Structures, as well as his principles of universal grammar and transformational generative grammar (McGilvray, 2018). -
Noam Chomsky on The Concept of Language