Noam chomsky

Noam Chomsky-Father of Modern Linguistics

By Tiffany Payne

  • Noam Chomsky-Birth

    Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a middle class Jewish family.

  • Noam Chomsky-Education

    In 1945, a 16 year old Chomsky, began attending the University of Pennsylvania. After two years of attending the University, he considered leaving to pursue a career in politics. However, an encounter with a linguist by the name of Zellig S. Harris, Chomsky reconsidered. He found the two shared political views and interested, and ultimately took graduate courses with Harris and went on to study philosophy.

  • Noam Chomsky-Ph.D

    In 1955, Chomsky received his Ph.D in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania after his one chapter submission of LSLT as a doctoral dissertation.

  • Noam Chomsky-MIT

    After receiving his Ph.D, he was given a teaching position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It required that he spend half of his time on a project for machine translation. He made it known that he was uncertain of the potential success. He told the director of the translation laboratory that the project was of “no intellectual interest and was also pointless”

  • Noam Chomsky-Revised MIT Lectures

    In 1957, Chomsky's book "Syntactic Structures" led to a revised version of a series of lectures given to MIT undergraduates. He helped to establish a new graduate program in linguistics.

  • Noam Chomsky-The 60s

    In the 1960s, Chomsky's approach to the study of language and mind, grew acceptance within the linguistics, though there were many theoretical variations within the paradigm.

    In 1961, Chomsky was appointed full time professor at MIT.
    In 1966, Professor of Modern Language and Linguistics at Ferrari P. Ward.

  • Noam Chomsky-Linguistics Version of Plato's Problem

    Chomsky’s early attempts to solve the linguistic version of Plato’s problem were presented in the “standard theory” of Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and the subsequent “extended standard theory,” which was developed and revised through the late 1970s. These theories proposed that the mind of the human infant is equipped with the possible knowledge of grammar.

  • Noam Chomsky-Concept of Language

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