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Chomsky

Chomsky

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An American language expert known for ideas about how language works
  • proper noun
  • /ˈtʃɑːmski/
: Chomsky
  • I would say this has proved true even of Chomsky's own theories of language acquisition.
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Chomsky's theory

And now here's my conversation with Noam Chomsky.

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Examples

  • The first draft of 'Universal Grammar' was completed one day after I finished Chomsky's book.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Just as language is related to cognitive structure (Chomsky, 1968), stories are related to the structure of language.

    Academic text (2002)
  • I know you just had Noam Chomsky on, which is amazing.

  • So I had the the great Noam Chomsky on the podcast a month ago.

  • I was watching a Noam Chomsky documentary.

  • An open letter last weekend signed by linguists including Noam Chomsky acknowledged this reality.

    Blog text (1)
  • So for example, as we learn from language through Noam Chomsky's work, kids are programmed to learn language.

  • MIT professor Noam Chomsky is a leading critic of American imperialism.

  • Much of the research done on students' linguistic ability was completed by people like Noam Chomsky and Lev Vygotsky.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Noam Chomsky revolutionized the field of linguistics with his theory of generative grammar.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

The name Chomsky is a Slavic family name: the ending -sky means 'from' or 'of' and it probably points to a place called Chomsk in Eastern Europe. So Chomsky originally told people the family was 'from Chomsk', which makes it easy to remember that the name shows where the family came from.