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Chomsky Earns PhD from University of Philidelphia
Chomsky graduated from UPENN in 1955 by submitting a chapter of his work The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory(LSLT) that he had been writing throughout his college career(McGilvray). After he graduated, he got a job at MIT as a professor and from then on he wrote almost a book a year. His LSLT outlines most of his ideology on language learning and causes a paradigm shift.
McGilvray, James A. “Noam Chomsky.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Dec.2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. -
Chomsky View of Language
The paradigm shift Chomsky started was that language is not a learned concept, rather that it is something inherent in the mind at birth. Chomsky's refutation of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior was seen as the start of this paradigm shift (McGilvray).
Chomsky's Philosophy. "Noam Chomsky-The Structure of Language." YouTube,28Dec2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3U6MsdBalg.
McGilvray, JamesA. “Noam Chomsky.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 12Dec2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. -
Chomsky Onwards
Chomsky has been a prominent figure in linguistics and has made many breakthroughs in different areas of linguistics such as psychology, behavior, culture, and education. His number one contribution to linguistics has been the Transformational Generative Grammar, according to Barman, where the learning of a language is innate and not learned.
Barman, B. “The Linguistic Philosophy of Noam Chomsky”. Philosophy and Progress, Vol. 51, no. 1-2, Jan. 2014, pp. 103-22, doi:10.3329/pp.v51i1-2.17681. -
Chomsky Onwards Pt 2
"Chomsky dealt a serious blow to behaviourism, after which stimulus-response theory of language learning was abandoned[...] boost to cognitive psychology. This paradigm shift in the history of linguistics is recognised as Chomskyan Revolution." (Barman104). This excerpt from Barman's text shows Chomsky's ideas changed the way people think about speech.
Barman, B.“The Linguistic Philosophy of Noam Chomsky”. Philosophy and Progress, Vol.51, no.1-2, Jan2014, pp.103-22, doi:10.3329/pp.v51i1-2.17681.
