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Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the affluent East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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He has been one of the most outstanding figures of twentieth-century linguistics, thanks to his work in linguistics and cognitive science theory.
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He has studied philosophy, linguistics and mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania since 1945.
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One of his teachers was the philosopher Nelson Goodman, who later presented at the Society of Fellows at Harvard. He received his doctorate in 1955.
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In 1957, only 29 years Chomsky revolutionized the field of theoretical linguistics with the publication of Syntactic Structures work, based on his doctoral thesis logical structure of linguistic theory-which would not be published until 1975.
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He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1961
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In the 1970s, Chomsky signed a petition to the authorities to ensure freedom of expression, stating that he did not share the view denier, but he did not recognize antisemitic in Faurisson's work.
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He occupied the Lecture Series Ferrari P. Ward Modern Language and Linguistics 1966-1976.
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The Principles and Parameters approach (P & P) developed in the Conferences of Pisa (1979), later published under the title Lectures on Government and Binding (LGB) was taken much of universal grammar.
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Specifically in his book 11/09/2001, states that the United States is "one of the leading terrorist states" ("a leading terrorist state"). Noam Chomsky published in December 2001, three months after what happened in New York.
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In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate (language) of the National University of Colombia.
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In 2006, Chomsky received the same award from the University of the Frontier in Chile.
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Later, his book Hegemony or Survival: U.S. seeking global dominance was recommended by the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez's speech to the UN General Assembly on September 20, 2006.
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On September 23, he received an honorary doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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Has been AIPTI honorary member since 2009.
