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Noam was born in Philadelphia.
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Noam began attending university at 16 years of age.
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Noam finished his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. His thesis was published.
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Noam was awarded a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania for his theory of transformational grammar. Chomsky's work contradicted earlier tenants of structuralism, rejecting that every language is unique (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2009).
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An opposition to the dominant theories at the time that "revolutionized the scientific study of language" (Lyons, 1978). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMbQvVQAqQ
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Chomsky challenged B.F. Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" primarily for the explanation of language development (Chomsky, 1959), but had the broader affect of challenging the entire field of Behaviorism. This review marked a paradigm shift form Behaviorism to Cognitivism in Linguistics and Psychology (Khullar, 2014).
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Language is an innate component of the human mind (Chomsky, 1965). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cgpfw4z8cw
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Based off Chomsky's 1955 Doctoral dissertation. Complete theory of linguistic structure. Concepts and technical notions were introduced in this text that became central to linguistic theorizing (Lohndal & Howard, 2017). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fW_8bDGdX0