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Avram Noam Chomsky was born in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Jewish immigrants: father was from Russia and mother was from Belarus. Naom Chomsky had a younger brother, and they were brought up Jewish.
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Syntactic Structures was based his teacher Zellig Harris's model of transformational generative grammar. This book is summarized as just because a sentence is grammatically correct that doesn't mean it makes sense. This is why when you learn a new language you are told how to say it correctly.
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This book delves further into his theory of how language works. This book further formulated his transformational generative grammar (TGG). This book established linguistics as a science.
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At age 94 Chomsky is still active
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"Chomsky, Noam Avram." Gale Biographies: Popular People, edited by Gale Cengage Learning, 1st edition, 2020. Credo Reference, https://search-credoreference-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/content/entry/galegbpp/chomsky_noam_avram/0. Accessed 06 Feb. 2022.