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AVRAM
NOAM
CHOMSKY
• Linguistics itself is a discipline of
cognitive psychology and strives to
understand how language is learned
and used by children.
• Psychologist
• Linguistic
• Political activist
• Was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia
• His parents William and Elsie Chomsky were
Hebrew
• His brother David Eli Chomsky 5 years older than
him
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Central High School of Philadelphia
• 1955 he left Harvard and
entered at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Until now…
• He married Doris Schatz
• They had two daugthers an a
son
CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
• Michael Tomasello and
Elizabeth Bates
• Contribution to the
field of phonology
• every language had similar
parameters that could be
manipulated and modified
AWARDS
• benjamin franklin
medal on
computer and
cognitive science
• the American
Psychological
Association’s
Distinguished Scientific
Contribution Award.
POPULAR CULTURE
• Michel Foucault
• social structures determine
human values, personality,
and social problems
• human nature is
heavily determined by
biology
• Chomsky is known as
a vigorous debater:
• William F. Buckley
• Christopher Hitchens
• Alan Dershowitz
CONTIBUTIONS TO LANGUAGE
ACQUISITIONS AND THEORIES
Linguistic theory
• the principles underlying the structure of language are
biologically determined in the human mind and hence
genetically transmitted
• Everybody has the same underlying linguistic structure
Syntactic Structures
• challenges structural linguistics and
introduces transformational grammar.
Another important contribution
• Chomsky says that a formal
grammar of a language can
explain the ability of a hearerspeaker to produce and interpret
an infinite number of utterances.
Universal grammar
• LAD ( languaje
acquisition
device)
• UG (universal
grammar)
(lack of LAD)
• the strongest evidence for the
existence of Universal Grammar is
simply the fact that children
successfully acquire their native
languages in so little time
LAD
• The precise form of language must be
acquired through exposure to a speech
community.
• Words are definitely not inbron, but the
capacity to acquire language and use it
creatively seems to be inborn.