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Noam Chomsky American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, 2010.

Noam Chomsky

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Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, McGill University. Editor of The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky; author of Chomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics.
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Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American theoretical linguist whose work from the 1950s revolutionized the field of linguistics by treating language as a uniquely human, biologically based cognitive capacity. Through his contributions to linguistics and related fields, including cognitive psychology and the philosophies of mind and language, Chomsky helped to initiate and sustain what came to be known as the “cognitive revolution.” Chomsky also gained a worldwide following as...

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