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Birth
Born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania to William Chomsky and Elsie Simonofsky -
Chomsky Enters University of Pennsylvania
At just 16 the young Jewish Chomsky began college after numerous high school accolades -
Wrote his Master's Thesis
Chomsky's thesis titled "the Morphophonemic of Modern Hebrew" in which he stated that human language at its root expresses unconscious construction from the environment -
Chomsky Receives Ph.D in Linguistics
received in University of Pennsylvania it was here he met Nelson Goodman. "Goodman believed the human mind was a blank slate", "Chomsky believed the basic concepts of language were innate in every human’s mind and then only influenced by one’s syntactical environment." -
Became a professor at MIT
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Chomsky Publishes lectures on Government and Binding
This was one of the crowning moments in Chomsky's career . It outlined principles and parameters in childhood linguistics. He expands upon Plato's problem referenced in the Meno. The Meno put forth that children have an innate creativity and hold within knowledge that is inherit within them. Chomsky is of the belief that natural science and linguistics hold the key to Plato's Problem. -
Chomsky retires as a professor
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Citations
Britannica, The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia. "Noam Chomsky". Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Nov. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/facts/Noam-Chomsky. Accessed 5 November 2023. “Noam Chomsky on Language Aquisition.” YouTube, YouTube, 22 Jan. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cgpfw4z8cw. “Noam Chomsky: Biography, Linguistics, Books, Quotes & Education.” Biography.Com, www.biography.com/scholars-educators/noam-chomsky. Accessed 6 Nov. 2023.