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Birth
Noam Chomsky was born on 7 December 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Attended University of Pennsylvania
Chomsky was at University of Pennsylvania for 2 years and then left to pursue his political interests when he met Zellig Harris, a structural linguist. -
The Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew and The logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
In 1950 - 1951 Chompsky wrote his master's thesis on The Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew and The logical Structure of Linguistic Theory while he was a junior fellow at Harvard. -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology appoints teaching position
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Published Syntactic Structures
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Published Aspects of the Theory of Synatx
Here is a lecture from Noam Chompsky on the theory of Synatx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0t34c3W8d0&t=51s -
Published Cartesian Linguistics
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Use of theoretical framework
Chomsky and others developed a better solution using a theoretical framework known as “principles and parameters” (McGilvray, 2019) -
Signed petition
Signed a petition in support of the free-speech rights of Robert Faurisson, a French lecturer who denied the existence of the gas chambers used in Nazi concentration camps. (Biography.com Editors) Biography.com Editors. "Noam Chomsky Biography." Biography.com, A&E Television Networks, 24 Apr. 2020, www.biography.com/scholar/noam-chomsky. Accessed 9 Aug. 2020. -
Published Lectures on Government and Binding
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Retired as a professor
