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About Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky, who joined the UA faculty in fall 2017, is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He is also the Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice.

Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. Among his groundbreaking books are Syntactic Structures, Language and Mind, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, and The Minimalist Program, each of which has made distinct contributions to the development of the field.

Chomsky is credited with revolutionizing the linguistics field by introducing the Chomsky hierarchy, generative grammar and the concept of a universal grammar, which underlies all human speech and is based in the innate structure of the mind/brain.

Chomsky's work also has influenced the fields of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, computer science, mathematics, childhood education and anthropology. Applications of his work can be found in

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Noam Chomsky

American linguist and activist (born 1928)

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Noam Chomsky

Chomsky in 2017

Born

Avram Noam Chomsky


(1928-12-07) December 7, 1928 (age 96)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Spouses

Carol Schatz

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(m. 1949; died )​

Valeria Wasserman

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(m. 2014)​
Children3, including Aviva
FatherWilliam Chomsky
Awards
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania(BA, MA, PhD)
ThesisTransformational Analysis (1955)
Doctoral advisorZellig Harris
Influences

 

  • Academic

    • J. L. Austin, William Chomsky, C. West Churchman, René Descartes, Galileo,Nelson Goodman, Morris Halle, Zellig Harris, Wilhelm von Humboldt, David Hume,Roman Jakobson, Immanuel Kant,George Armitage Miller, Pāṇini, Hilary Putnam,W. V. O. Quine, Bertrand Russell, Ferdinand de Saussure, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Alan Turing,Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Political

    • Mikhail Bakunin, Alex
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      Noam Chomsky

      Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an Americanlinguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He was an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

      Linguistics

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      Chomsky created the theory of generative grammar. This is one of the most important contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped start the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior. He challenged the behaviorist way of looking at behavior and language. This was the main approach used in the 1950s. His natural approach to the study of language also changed the philosophy of language and mind. He also invented the Chomsky hierarchy, a way of looking at formal languages in terms of their power to explain language.

      According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period. He was the eighth-most cited s

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