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Birth
Noam Chomsky was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended an experimental elementary school where he was free to develop his interest and talents.
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early childhood
At ten years old, he wrote a story for his school newspaper about Barcelona's fall in the Spanish Civil War and the rise of fascism in Europe.
When he was 13 years old, he would take trips by himself to New York City, where he found books for his reading habit and made visit the thriving working-class Jewish intellectual community. -
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early adulthood
During this time, he met the linguist Zellig S. Harris, one of the American founders of structural linguistics, whose political convictions were similar to Chomsky. Noam Would meet his first wife in 1949; her name was Carol Doris Schatz; she would die in 2008. -
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The congitve revolution
Noam Chomsky is best known for sparking what was called the "Cognitive Revolution. During this time, cognitive psychology replaced Behaviorism and Psychoanalysis as the main approach in psychological fields. During this time, he received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 after submitting one chapter of LSLT as a doctoral dissertation (Transformational Analysis). In 1956 he was appointed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to a teaching position. -
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Years after
Chomsky was appointed full professor at MIT in 1961, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics in 1966, and Institute Professor in 1976. Noam retired as a professor at in 2002. His current spouse is Valeria Wasserman. They were married in 2014. Noam Chomsky theory that made him famous was Originated in 1960.
"We are all born with an innate knowledge of grammar that serves as the basis for all language acquisition. In other words, for humans, language is a basic instinct."