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Early Life
Chomsky's time at University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. -
Birth of Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia December 7, 1928. The son of two Jewish immigrants. -
The beginnings of Chomsky's intellectual pursuits
By the age of 13 Chomsky was taking trips alone to New York to satisfy his hunger for reading and books. Chomsky developed a relationship with the Jewish intellectual community, which in turn influenced his political views throughout his life. As those beliefs developed he would go on to coin the term anarchosyndicalism, a political system in where the individual has the maximum ability to engage in cooperative activity and take part in community decisions. -
Chomsky Goes to College
By the age of 16 Chomsky enrolled in the College of Pennsylvania, at first finding little that interested him. Two years later he would meet linguist Zellig S. Harris one of the founders of structural linguistics in America, who held similar political believes. Harris became the springboard for Chomsky's career as an intellectual. Chomsky would start to take graduate courses with Harris. In 1951 Chomsky wrote his master thesis "The Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew." -
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Dr. Noam Chomsky
In 1955 Chomsky was awarded his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of pensylvania -
“Syntactic Structures”
One of Chomsky's most known works “Syntactic Structures” was published in 1957. He disagreed with the previous idea that the mind started as a "blank slate" Chomsky believed that the human mind hold the innate ability to recognize generative grammars that constitute every human language, and that children use this ability to learn whatever language they are exposed to. -
Linguistic theory
Chomsky would publish “Aspects of the Theory of Syntax” in 1965, and “The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory” in 1975 cementing his ideas that the mind of an infant has the format of possible grammar innately endowed from birth. This work had a profound effect on everything from philosophy to neurology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyaDTxGC-wI -
Retirement From Active Teaching
Chomsky would retire from actively teaching in 2005, after spending half a century teaching linguistics and philosophy at MIT. Chomsky has gone on to make appearances at schools as a guest professor throughout the years. The effects of Chomsky is felt and is still being felt in the world of science. His theories answered, and continue to pose new questions on human nature, and how our species processes information