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Noam Chomsky - Universal Grammar I "Chomsky, Noam Avram." Gale Biographies: Popular People, edited by Gale Cengage Learning, 1st edition, 2018. Credo Reference, http://ezproxy.apus.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/galegbpp/chomsky_noam_avram/0?institutionId=8703. Accessed 05 Oct. 2018. -
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"The Language Organ Grows like Any Other Body Organ : Noam Chomsky(1928 )." Big Ideas Simply Explained: The Psychology Book, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 1st edition, 2012. Credo Reference, http://ezproxy.apus.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/dkpsycbook/the_language_organ_grows_like_any_other_body_organ_noam_chomsky_1928/0?institutionId=8703. Accessed 05 Oct. 2018. -
Syntactic Structures
Syntactic Structures was revolutionary in the study of linguistics for a number of reasons but specifically that it utilized Transformational Grammar in a manner that formalized the study of linguistics. Equally as important, it had far reaching affects into other disciplines. For Philosophy, it sparked a renewed interest in philosophical symantics, meaning that the relationship between language and reality was more deeply explored, having a direct correlation to science as a study of reality. -
Cartesian Linguistics
Cartesian Linguistics is something of a low point in Chomsky's exposition of Universal Grammar but is nevertheless an important book in the development of the theory. It attempts, somewhat unsuccessfully to link Chomsky's theory to formal frameworks of linguistic theory. "Cartesian" is a reference to Descartes, but the link is weak. What he does succeed in doing is demonstrating that language has often been perceived as instinctual by many historical linguistic thinkers. -
Language and Mind
"Language and Mind" set forth the theoretical framework for the relationship between language and brain structure, or the instinctual propensity for language that seems to follow a set Grammatical rulebook throughout all languages. Chomsky has his critics and is a very polarizing figure in the world of linguistics. As such, his theories are the defining framework in linguistics today. -
Debate and Discussion
Chomsky's effect on Linguistics, according to Nicholas Wade, seems to be partially due to his personality and aggressive style of debate. He is a superstar in the field and tends to have an outsized impact on it. What is less debatable is the effect he has had in creating new conversations surrounding language. Not only in its development but in how we consider it as an instrument of communication.