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Birth!
Noam Chomsky is born, and live quite a long life- as he is still alive today! He would go on to make a lot of significant and still relevant work regarding human language. -
Syntactic Structures
Chomsky's work "Syntactic Structures had a major impact on the study of knowledge, mind and mental processes." It become a vital part of discussion in the cognitive science field, and also ha great impact on research into computers and the brain. He rejected old ideas of babies being blank slates, suggesting innate grammar is understood.
Famous Scientists. (2018, July 11). Noam Chomsky - Biography, Facts and Pictures. Retrieved October 6, 2022, from https://www.famousscientists.org/noam-chomsky/ -
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
The link provides a very brief, yet suprisingly elaborate explanation of the Theory of Syntax. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax -
Language and Mind
This work helps support his prior work of Syntactic Structures.
He establishes Universal Grammar. "(UG) is the
system of principles, conditions, and rules that are elements or
properties common to all languages – the essence of human
language." He says all humans have this, regardless of the language they speak. He proclaims (UG) is the blueprint to human language. Barman. (2012). THE LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY OF NOAM CHOMSKY. -
The Minimalist Program
Publish when he was 67 years old! "The Minimalist Program is a set of programmatic ideas for the creation of a theoretical framework for syntax, developed by Noam A. Chomsky and his followers since the early 1990s. It aims to eliminate from linguistic theory anything which is not 'virtually necessary'." His program is a technique for understanding grammar.
Minimalist Program - Glottopedia. (2009). Glottopedia. Retrieved October 5, 2022, fromhttp://www.glottopedia.org/index.php/Minimalist_Program