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Noam Chomsky 1928-Present
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Entered the University of Pennsylvania
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Earned Bachelor's in Linguistics
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Earned Master's Degree
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Systems of Syntactic Analysis
Chomsky's first academic article published, that later appeared in The Journal of Symbolic Logic. This paper was his first outbreak into the linguist community, aiming to "formalize a certain parts of the linguist's generalized syntax language" https://philpapers.org/rec/CHOSOS -
Earned Doctorate's Degree
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Assistant Professor
Chomsky, was appointed an assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). -
Syntactic Structures
Chomsky published his first book Syntactic Structures, which essentially breaks down sentences into smaller parts, thus in theory allowing one to understand the formal aspects of syntax more formally. Later to be considered the revolution of the scientific study of language. https://books.google.com/books?id=a6a_b-CXYAkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false -
Challenging of B.F. Skinner
Chomsky, reviewed Skinner's book Verbal Behavior and opposed his view of language as learned behavior. Chomsky believed that Skinner ignored the creativity in linguistics. -
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Cognative Sciences
Chomsky was and is a leader still in the field of cognitive sciences, primarily psychology, helping see the abilities of learning a language from his background in linguistics, giving the tools to break down any natural language and learn it as well as understand it. opposing the traditional views and bringing the ability of natural human ability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1fqRigFtTw -
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Military Consultant
Chomsky worked with the military to try and help establish natural language into an operational language for commands and control. -
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Chomsky's book Aspects of the Theory of Syntax was his way of stating that the approach of linguistics needed to be refreshed and brought into a modern light to be inclusive to truly study languages.
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The Logical Structure of Liguistic Theory
Chomsky published his book, The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, delving into his theory that natural language can be learned, but is more cognitive than what is thought.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236715916_The_Logical_Structure_of_Linguistic_Theory