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Birthday
Noam Chomsky was born on the 7th day of December 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky/Linguistics“ -
Early Life achievements
Chomsky was born into a middle class family that was Jewish. He attended a “experimental” elementary school which would push to him to self direct interests and talents. Due to this it would later help him with the opportunity to write a editorial for his school. This would help him with events to come. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky/Linguistics -
Early Genius
Chomsky at age 13 would travel to New York and would find books to read while becoming affiliated with a strong working class. This is where his beliefs would grow. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky/Linguistics -
University of Pennsylvania
Chomsky attended The university of Pennsylvania at age 16 but had no interest in attending and thought of taking his natural aspirations and getting into politics. But this changed Due to meeting Zellig-S-Harris who held similar political convictions as Chomsky, was also a founder of the American linguists. It was also Harris who advised Chomsky take philosophy. -
Writings
He would write “The Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew“ and “The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory”. -
Harvard
Chomsky attended Harvard until 1955 as a PhD student. -
Published chapter of The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
Chomsky would receive a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania after submitting chapter of The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory -
Massachusetts institute of technology
Chomsky was assigned to help create a machine to help with translation. -
Theory of universal grammar (Platos problem)
He thought that grammar was embedded into our basic instincts. It’s a set of structural rules. He believed we had a hard set of pre made structured senses that help us achieve communication. https://youtu.be/7Cgpfw4z8cw -
Full Professor at MIT
Appointed as full professor at MIT -
Professor of modern languages
Appointed as of Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics -
Chomsky and Foucault debate
https://youtu.be/3wfNl2L0Gf8 Both members were invited by Fons Elders. To discuss “is there such a thing as “innate” human nature independent of our experiences and external influences?” -
Institute professor
Appointed as institute professor in 1976 -
Retirement
Retired as professor emeritus, chomskys Ideas were different and due to more recent studies it shows to be more and more true. He to some is a father of modern linguistics.