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Noam Chomsky, (Born December 7, 1928)
Noam Chomsky is best known for his groundbreaking work in the field of linguistics. Born to a middle-class family, Chomsky lived through the Great Depression and World War II which dramatically influenced his views on the world. He received his B.A. and M.A in nontraditional modes of study. Later earning his PhD in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been teaching controversial theories on human linguistics since 1955. -
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Noam Chomsky, (Born December 7, 1928)
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Syntactic Structures
In 1957, Chomsky published his most famous book “Syntactic Structures” which promoted Zellig Harris’s model of transformational generative grammar. Cognitive psychology differs from previous psychological approaches in two key ways. It accepts the use of the scientific method and generally rejects introspection as a valid method of investigation - in contrast with such approaches as Freudian psychology (Costley, 2013). It studies how people think, remember, create, and speak. -
Dates and MLA citations
- Noam Chomsky Biography. The Biography.com website, 2010.Web
- Chomsky, Noam. “The Language Capacity: Architecture and Evolution.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 24.1 (2017): 200–203. Web.
- Chomsky, Noam. et al. Of Minds and Language a Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country . Oxford ;: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.
- Kevin C. Costley, Ph.D. and Jaime Nelson. (2013). Avram Noam Chomsky and His Cognitive Development Theory.
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Theory of Universal Language
