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In the Begining
Noam Chomsky was born into a middle-class Jewish family, Chomsky attended an experimental elementary school in which he was encouraged to develop his own interests and talents through self-directed learning. When he was 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. (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky) -
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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, in full Avram Noam Chomsky, (born December 7, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American theoretical linguist whose work from the 1950s revolutionized the field of linguistics by treating language as a uniquely human, biologically based cognitive capacity. -
Growth and Influance
His research then and during the next few years was thorough enough to serve decades later as the basis of “Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship” (1969), Chomsky’s critical review of a study of the period by the historian Gabriel Jackson. (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky) -
BIG APPLE
In 1941 Noam starts taking trips to New York where makes contacts the intellectual community and joins in enriched discussions that would form his beliefs that would underlie his political views. Chomsky’s theory of libertarian socialism believed that the best form of government will allow all people to have maximum opportunities to engage in all decisions with in the community. -
University of Pennsylvania
In 1945, Chomsky attends University of Pennsylvania. He finds himself on the verge of dropping out to purse political interests, the meets Zellig S. Harris, one of the American founders of structural linguistics. Chomsky took graduate courses with Harris and studied philosophy with Nelson Goodman, Nathan Salmon and mathematics with Nathan Fine, who was then teaching at Harvard University. -
Master Chomp
In his 1951 master’s thesis, The Morphophonemic of Modern Hebrew, and especially in The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (LSLT), written while he was a junior fellow at Harvard (1951–55) and published in part in 1975, Chomsky adopted aspects of Harris’s approach to the study of language and of Goodman’s views on formal systems and the philosophy of science and transformed them into something truly groundbreaking. -
Master Chomp Cont'
Chomsky received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 after submitting one chapter of LSLT as a doctoral dissertation (Transformational Analysis). -
Master Chomp Cont'
). In 1956 he was appointed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to a teaching position that required him to spend half his time on a machine translation project, though he was openly skeptical of its prospects for success (he told the director of the translation laboratory that the project was of “no intellectual interest and was also pointless”)
