Avram Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Born	December 7, 1928 East Oak Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation	Linguist, Writer

Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, in which he challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has also affected the philosophy of language and mind (see Harman, Fodor). He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. Image File history File linksMetadata Noam_chomsky_cropped. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... East Oak Lane is a neighborhood in the Northern section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 160 miles (255 km)  - Length 280 miles (455 km)  - % water 2. ... The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the title of Institute Professor is given to a small number of members of the faculty with extraordinary records of achievement. ... Emeritus (IPA pronunciation: or ) is an adjective that is used in the title of a retired professor, bishop or other professional. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is organized into five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments and 53 interdisciplinary laboratories, centers and programs. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Generative linguistics. ... Theoretical linguistics is that branch of linguistics that is most concerned with developing models of linguistic knowledge. ... The cognitive revolution is a name for an intellectual movement in the 1950s that combined new thinking in psychology, anthropology and linguistics with the nascent fields of computer science and neuroscience. ... Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 _ August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist and author. ... Verbal Behavior (1957) is a book written by psychologist B.F. Skinner in which the author presents his ideas on what is typically called language. ... Behaviorism is an approach to psychology based on the proposition that behaviour can be studied and explained scientifically without recourse to internal mental states. ... Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language. ... A Phrenological mapping of the brain. ... Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is a contemporary philosopher teaching at Princeton University who has published widely in Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and the philosophies of Language and Mind. ... Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is a philosopher at Rutgers University, New Jersey. ... Within the field of computer science, specifically in the area of programming languages, the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars that generate formal languages. ... In mathematics, logic, and computer science, a formal language is a set of finite-length words (i. ...

Beginning with his critique of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Chomsky has become more widely known — especially internationally — for his media criticism and radical politics than for his linguistic theories.^[1][2] He is generally considered to be a key intellectual figure within the left wing of United States politics. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, between 1980 and 1992 Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar, and the eighth most cited scholar overall.^[3][4][5] Chomsky is widely known for his political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. Chomsky describes himself as a libertarian socialist and a sympathizer of anarcho-syndicalism (he is a member of the IWW). An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries â€¢ Politics Portal      Politics of the United States of America takes place in a framework of a federal presidential... The Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) is the registered trademark for a citation index of over 1,000 of the worlds leading arts and humanities journals. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ... The word critic comes from the Greek κριτικός, kritikós - one who discerns, which itself arises from the Ancient Greek word κριτής, krités, meaning a person who offers reasoned judgement or analysis, value judgement, interpretation, or observation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Libertarian socialism includes a group of political philosophies that aims to create a society without political, economic or social hierarchies - a society within which individuals freely co-operate together as equals. ... Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the labour movement. ... The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. ...

Biography

Chomsky as a child

Chomsky was born in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Hebrew scholar and IWW member William Chomsky, who was from a town in Ukraine. His mother, Elsie Chomsky (born Simonofsky), came from what is now Belarus, but unlike her husband she grew up in the United States and spoke "ordinary New York English". Their first language was Yiddish, but Chomsky says it was "taboo" in his family to speak it. He describes his family as living in a sort of "Jewish ghetto", split into a "Yiddish side" and "Hebrew side", with his family aligning with the latter and bringing him up "immersed in Hebrew culture and literature". Chomsky also describes tensions he personally experienced with Irish Catholics and anti-Semitism in the mid-1930s, stating, "I don't like to say it but I grew up with a kind of visceral fear of Catholics. I knew it was irrational and got over it but it was just the street experience."^[6] This is a screenshot from Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. ... This is a screenshot from Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. ... East Oak Lane is a neighborhood in the Northern section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... The IWW Label A Wobbly membership card The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, having much in common with anarcho-syndicalist unions, but also many differences. ... New York Dialect is the variety of the English language spoken by most European Americans in New York City and much of its metropolitan area including Northern New Jersey, Westchester and Rockland counties, and all of Long Island. ... Yiddish (Yid. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ...

Chomsky remembers the first article he wrote was at the age of ten about the threat of the spread of fascism, following the fall of Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War. From the age of twelve or thirteen, he identified more fully with anarchist politics.^[7] Fascism (IPA: ) is a radical political ideology that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, nationalism, militarism, anti-liberalism and anti-communism. ... Combatants Spanish Republic CNT-FAI UGT POUM Soviet Union International Brigades Spanish State Falangists Carlists Fascist Italy Nazi Germany Commanders Manuel Azaña Francisco Largo Caballero Juan Negrín Francisco Franco Casualties Civilians killed/wounded = hundreds of thousands The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April...

A graduate of Central High School of Philadelphia (184th Class), in 1945 Chomsky began studying philosophy and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, learning from philosophers C. West Churchman and Nelson Goodman and linguist Zellig Harris. Harris's teaching included his discovery of transformations as a mathematical analysis of language structure (mappings from one subset to another in the set of sentences). Chomsky subsequently reinterpreted these as operations on the productions of a context-free grammar (derived from Post production systems). Harris's political views were instrumental in shaping those of Chomsky. Central High School is the second oldest public high school in the United States. ... Socrates (central bare-chested figure) about to drink hemlock as mandated by the court. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language. ... The University of Pennsylvania (or Penn[3][4]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Charles West Churchman (born August 29, 1913 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died March 21, 2004 Bolinas, California) was an American philospher in the field of management science, operations research and systems theory. ... Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906, Somerville, Maryland – 25 November 1998) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, and aesthetics. ... Zellig Sabbetai Harris (October 23, 1909 - May 22, 1992) was an American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science. ... In mathematics, a linear transformation (also called linear map or linear operator) is a function between two vector spaces that preserves the operations of vector addition and scalar multiplication. ... In linguistics and computer science, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar in which every production rule is of the form V → w where V is a nonterminal symbol and w is a string consisting of terminals and/or non-terminals. ... // Definition A tag system is a triplet (m, A, P), where m is a positive integer; A is a finite alphabet of symbols, one of which is a special halting symbol; P is a set of production rules, assigning some word P(x) to each non-halting symbol x in...

In 1949, Chomsky married linguist Carol Schatz. They have two daughters, Aviva (b. 1957) and Diane (b. 1960), and a son, Harry (b. 1967). This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Chomsky received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. He conducted much of his doctoral research during four years at Harvard University as a Harvard Junior Fellow. In his doctoral thesis, he began to develop some of his linguistic ideas, elaborating on them in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures, perhaps his best-known work in linguistics. Aquatint of a Doctor in Divinity at the University of Oxford, in the scarlet and black academic robes corresponding to his position. ... The University of Pennsylvania (or Penn[3][4]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Harvard Society of Fellows is a collection of luminaries selected by Harvard University to be held close to its bosom, given special honors, thrown elegant dinners, and upon whom various privileges are bestowed. ... Ph. ... Syntactic Structures is the name of an influential book by Noam Chomsky first published in 1957. ...

Young Chomsky with parents

Chomsky joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 and in 1961 was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy). From 1966 to 1976 he held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics. In 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor. Chomsky has been teaching at MIT continuously for the last 50 years. This is a screenshot from Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. ... This is a screenshot from Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. ...

It was during this time that Chomsky became more publicly engaged in politics: he became one of the leading opponents of the Vietnam War with the publication of his essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" ^[8] in The New York Review of Books in 1967. Since that time, Chomsky has become well known for his political views, speaking on politics all over the world and writing numerous books. His far-reaching criticism of US foreign policy and the legitimacy of US power has made him a controversial figure. Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...

Chomsky has in the past received various death threats because of his criticisms of U.S foreign policy. He was on a list created by Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, of planned targets; during the period that Kaczynski was at large, Chomsky had all of his mail checked for explosives. Chomsky also states that he frequently receives undercover police protection, in particular while on the MIT campus, though Chomsky himself states that he does not agree with the police protection.^[9] This section does not cite its references or sources. ... Unabomber is a nickname applied to three people: Theodore Kaczynski, an American terrorist. ...

Despite his criticisms, Chomsky has stated that he continues to reside in the United States because he believes it remains the "greatest country in the world,"^[10] a comment that he later clarified by saying, "Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired."^[11] Chomsky travels frequently, giving lectures on politics. His lectures have been described as compelling and sincere, though largely devoid of personality or emotion^{[citation needed]}. Chomsky has acknowledged this criticism, seeing it more as a virtue: "I'm a boring speaker and I like it that way…I doubt that people are attracted to whatever the persona is…People are interested in the issues, and they're interested in the issues because they are important.^[12]

In 2003 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbian: Српска академија наука и уметности) was founded in 1886 as the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts. ...

Contributions to linguistics

Syntactic Structures was a distillation of his book Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1955, 75) in which he introduces transformational grammars. The theory takes utterances (sequences of words) to have a syntax which can be (largely) characterized by a formal grammar; in particular, a Context-free grammar extended with transformational rules. Children are hypothesized to have an innate knowledge of the basic grammatical structure common to all human languages (i.e. they assume that any language which they encounter is of a certain restricted kind). This innate knowledge is often referred to as universal grammar. It is argued that modeling knowledge of language using a formal grammar accounts for the "productivity" of language: with a limited set of grammar rules and a finite set of terms, humans are able to produce an infinite number of sentences, including sentences no one has previously said. Transformational grammar is a broad term describing grammars (almost exclusively those of natural languages) which have been developed in a Chomskian tradition. ... In linguistics and computer science, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar in which every production rule is of the form V → w where V is a nonterminal symbol and w is a string consisting of terminals and/or non-terminals. ... Universal grammar is a theory of linguistics postulating principles of grammar shared by all languages, thought to be innate to humans. ...

The Principles and Parameters approach (P&P) — developed in his Pisa 1979 Lectures, later published as Lectures on Government and Binding (LGB) — make strong claims regarding universal grammar: that the grammatical principles underlying languages are innate and fixed, and the differences among the world's languages can be characterized in terms of parameter settings in the brain (such as the pro-drop parameter, which indicates whether an explicit subject is always required, as in English, or can be optionally dropped, as in Spanish), which are often likened to switches. (Hence the term principles and parameters, often given to this approach.) In this view, a child learning a language need only acquire the necessary lexical items (words, grammatical morphemes, and idioms), and determine the appropriate parameter settings, which can be done based on a few key examples. A lexicon is a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i. ... In morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest lingual unit that carries a semantic interpretation. ...

Proponents of this view argue that the pace at which children learn languages is inexplicably rapid, unless children have an innate ability to learn languages. The similar steps followed by children all across the world when learning languages, and the fact that children make certain characteristic errors as they learn their first language, whereas other seemingly logical kinds of errors never occur (and, according to Chomsky, should be attested if a purely general, rather than language-specific, learning mechanism were being employed), are also pointed to as motivation for innateness.

More recently, in his Minimalist Program (1995), while retaining the core concept of "principles and parameters", Chomsky attempts a major overhaul of the linguistic machinery involved in the LGB model, stripping from it all but the barest necessary elements, while advocating a general approach to the architecture of the human language faculty that emphasizes principles of economy and optimal design, reverting to a derivational approach to generation, in contrast with the largely representational approach of classic P&P. Transformational grammar is a broad term describing grammars (almost exclusively those of natural languages) which have been developed in a Chomskyan tradition. ...

Chomsky's ideas have had a strong influence on researchers investigating the acquisition of language in children, though some researchers who work in this area today do not support Chomsky's theories, often advocating emergentist or connectionist theories reducing language to an instance of general processing mechanisms in the brain. Language acquisition is the process by which the language capability develops in a human. ... A termite cathedral mound produced by a termite colony: a classic example of emergence in nature. ... Connectionism today generally refers to an approach in the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science and philosophy of mind which models mental or behavioral phenomena with neural networks, and is associated with a certain set of arguments for why this is a good idea. ...

Generative grammar

The Chomskyan approach towards syntax, often termed generative grammar, though quite popular, has been challenged by many, especially those working outside the United States of America. Chomskyan syntactic analyses are often highly abstract, and are based heavily on careful investigation of the border between grammatical and ungrammatical constructs in a language. (Compare this to the so-called pathological cases that play a similarly important role in mathematics.) Such grammatical judgments can only be made accurately by a native speaker, however, and thus for pragmatic reasons such linguists often focus on their own native languages or languages in which they are fluent, usually Spanish, English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Japanese or one of the Chinese languages. However, as Chomsky has said: For other uses, see Syntax (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Generative linguistics. ... In mathematics, a pathological example is one whose properties are (or should be considered) untypically bad. ... First language (native language, mother tongue) is the language a person learns first. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

The first application of the approach was to Modern Hebrew, a fairly detailed effort in 1949–50. The second was to the native American language Hidatsa (the first full-scale generative grammar), mid-50s. The third was to Turkish, our first Ph.D. dissertation, early 60s. After that research on a wide variety of languages took off. MIT in fact became the international center of work on Australian Aboriginal languages within a generative framework [...] thanks to the work of Ken Hale, who also initiated some of the most far-reaching work on Native American languages, also within our program; in fact the first program that brought native speakers to the university to become trained professional linguists, so that they could do work on their own languages, in far greater depth than had ever been done before. That has continued. Since that time, particularly since the 1980s, it constitutes the vast bulk of work on the widest typological variety of languages. The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... Pehriska-Ruhpa of the Dog Band of the Hidatsa. ... See also, List of Indigenous Australian group names Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ... Image:Hale. ...

Sometimes generative grammar analyses break down when applied to languages which have not previously been studied, and many changes in generative grammar have occurred due to an increase in the number of languages analyzed. It is claimed that linguistic universals in semantics have become stronger rather than weaker over time. The existence of linguistic universals in syntax, which is the core of Chomsky's claim, is still highly disputed. Still, Richard Kayne suggested in the 1990s that all languages have an underlying Subject-Verb-Object word order.^[13] One of the prime motivations behind an alternative approach, the functional-typological approach or linguistic typology (often associated with Joseph Greenberg), is to base hypotheses of linguistic universals on the study of as wide a variety of the world's languages as possible, to classify the variation seen, and to form theories based on the results of this classification. The Chomskyan approach is too in-depth and reliant on native speaker knowledge to follow this method, though it has over time been applied to a broad range of languages. A linguistic universal is a statement that is true for all languages. ... Richard Kayne is a linguist at New York University. ... Linguistic typology is the typology that classifies languages by their features. ... Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915–May 7, 2001) was a prominent and controversial linguist, known for his work in both language classification and typology. ...

Chomsky hierarchy

Main article: Chomsky hierarchy

Chomsky is famous for investigating various kinds of formal languages and whether or not they might be capable of capturing key properties of human language. His Chomsky hierarchy partitions formal grammars into classes, or groups, with increasing expressive power, i.e., each successive class can generate a broader set of formal languages than the one before. Interestingly, Chomsky argues that modeling some aspects of human language requires a more complex formal grammar (as measured by the Chomsky hierarchy) than modeling others. For example, while a regular language is powerful enough to model English morphology, it is not powerful enough to model English syntax. In addition to being relevant in linguistics, the Chomsky hierarchy has also become important in computer science (especially in compiler construction and automata theory). The Chomsky hierarchy is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars that generate formal languages. ... In mathematics, logic, and computer science, a formal language is a set of finite-length words (i. ... The Chomsky hierarchy is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars that generate formal languages. ... In computer science a formal grammar is an abstract structure that describes a formal language precisely, i. ... A regular language is a formal language (i. ... Morphology is a subdiscipline of linguistics that studies word structure. ... For other uses, see Syntax (disambiguation). ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... A diagram of the operation of a typical multi-language, multi-target compiler. ... In theoretical computer science, automata theory is the study of abstract machines and problems they are able to solve. ...

His best-known work in phonology is The Sound Pattern of English, written with Morris Halle (and often known as simply SPE). Though extremely influential in its day, this work is considered outdated (though it has recently been reprinted), and Chomsky does not publish on phonology anymore. The vowels of modern (Standard) Arabic and (Israeli) Hebrew from the phonological point of view. ... The Sound Pattern of English (frequently referred to as SPE) is a work on phonology (a branch of linguistics) by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. ... Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz, is an American linguist. ...

In theoretical computer science, automata theory is the study of abstract machines and problems they are able to solve. ... In mathematics, logic, and computer science, a formal language is a set of finite-length words (i. ... In computer science a formal grammar is an abstract structure that describes a formal language precisely, i. ... The Chomsky hierarchy is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars that generate formal languages. ... In computer science a formal grammar is an abstract structure that describes a formal language precisely, i. ... Fig. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... A recursively enumerable language in mathematics, logic and computer science, is a type of formal language which is also called partially decidable or Turing-recognizable. ... An artistic representation of a Turing Machine . ... A recursive language in mathematics, logic and computer science, is a type of formal language which is also called recursive, decidable or Turing-decidable. ... In computability theory, a machine that always halts — also called a decider (Sipser, 1996) — is any abstract machine or model of computation that, contrary to the most general Turing machines, is guaranteed to halt for any particular description and input (see halting problem). ... A context-sensitive grammar is a formal grammar in which the left-hand sides and right-hand sides of any production rules may be surrounded by a context of terminal and nonterminal symbols. ... A context-sensitive language is a formal language that can be defined by a context-sensitive grammar. ... A linear bounded automaton (plural linear bounded automata, abbreviated LBA) is a restricted form of a Turing machine. ... In linguistics and computer science, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar in which every production rule is of the form V → w where V is a nonterminal symbol and w is a string consisting of terminals and/or non-terminals. ... A context-free language is a formal language that is accepted by some pushdown automaton. ... In automata theory, a pushdown automaton is a finite automaton that can make use of a stack containing data. ... In computer science a right regular grammar is a formal grammar (N, Σ, P, S) such that all the production rules in P are of one of the following forms: A → a - where A is a non-terminal in N and a is a terminal in Σ A → aB - where A and... A regular language is a formal language (i. ... In the theory of computation, a finite state machine (FSM) or finite state automaton (FSA) is an abstract machine that has only a finite, constant amount of memory. ... A is a subset of B, and B is a superset of A. In mathematics, especially in set theory, the terms, subset, superset and proper (or strict) subset or superset are used to describe the relation, called inclusion, of one set being contained inside another set. ...

Contributions to psychology

Chomsky's work in linguistics has had major implications for modern psychology. For Chomsky linguistics is a branch of cognitive psychology; genuine insights in linguistics imply concomitant understandings of aspects of mental processing and human nature. His theory of a universal grammar was seen by many as a direct challenge to the established behaviorist theories of the time and had major consequences for understanding how language is learned by children and what, exactly, the ability to use language is. Many of the more basic principles of this theory (though not necessarily the stronger claims made by the principles and parameters approach described above) are now generally accepted in some circles. Psychology is an academic and applied field involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. ... Cognitive Psychology is the school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. ... Universal grammar is a theory of linguistics postulating principles of grammar shared by all languages, thought to be innate to humans. ... Behaviorism (or behaviourism) is an approach to psychology based on the proposition that behavior is interesting and worthy of scientific research. ... Principles and parameters refers to a popular framework in generative linguistics. ...

In 1959, Chomsky published an influential critique of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, a book in which Skinner offered a speculative explanation of language in behavioral terms. "Verbal behavior" he defined as learned behavior which has its characteristic consequences being delivered through the learned behavior of others; this makes for a view of communicative behaviors much larger than that usually addressed by linguists. Skinner's approach focused on the circumstances in which language was used; for example, asking for water was functionally a different response than labeling something as water, responding to someone asking for water, etc. These functionally different kinds of responses, which required in turn separate explanations, sharply contrasted both with traditional notions of language and Chomsky's psycholinguistic approach. Chomsky thought that a functionalist explanation restricting itself to questions of communicative performance ignored important questions. (Chomsky-Language and Mind, 1968). He focused on questions concerning the operation and development of innate structures for syntax capable of creatively organizing, cohering, adapting and combining words and phrases into intelligible utterances. Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 _ August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist and author. ... Verbal Behavior (1957) is a book written by B.F. Skinner in which the author presents his ideas on language. ...

In the review Chomsky emphasized that the scientific application of behavioral principles from animal research is severely lacking in explanatory adequacy and is furthermore particularly superficial as an account of human verbal behavior because a theory restricting itself to external conditions, to "what is learned", cannot adequately account for generative grammar. Chomsky raised the examples of rapid language acquisition of children, including their quickly developing ability to form grammatical sentences, and the universally creative language use of competent native speakers to highlight the ways in which Skinner's view exemplified under-determination of theory by evidence. He argued that to understand human verbal behavior such as the creative aspects of language use and language development, one must first postulate a genetic linguistic endowment. The assumption that important aspects of language are the product of universal innate ability runs counter to Skinner's radical behaviorism.

Chomsky's 1959 review has drawn fire from a number of critics, the most famous criticism being that of Kenneth MacCorquodale's 1970 paper On Chomsky’s Review of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior (Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, volume 13, pages 83-99). This and similar critiques have raised certain points not generally acknowledged outside of behavioral psychology, such as the claim that Chomsky did not possess an adequate understanding of either behavioral psychology in general, or the differences between Skinner's behaviorism and other varieties; consequently, it is argued that he made several serious errors. On account of these perceived problems, the critics maintain that the review failed to demonstrate what it has often been cited as doing. As such, it is averred that those most influenced by Chomsky's paper probably either already substantially agreed with Chomsky or never actually read it. Chomsky has maintained that the review was directed at the way Skinner's variant of behavioral psychology "was being used in Quinean empiricism and`naturalization of philosophy" (quoted in Barsky- Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent[5].

It has been claimed that Chomsky's critique of Skinner's methodology and basic assumptions paved the way for the "cognitive revolution", the shift in American psychology between the 1950s through the 1970s from being primarily behavioral to being primarily cognitive. In his 1966 Cartesian Linguistics and subsequent works, Chomsky laid out an explanation of human language faculties that has become the model for investigation in some areas of psychology. Much of the present conception of how the mind works draws directly from ideas that found their first persuasive author of modern times in Chomsky. The cognitive revolution is a name for an intellectual movement in the 1950s that combined new thinking in psychology, anthropology and linguistics with the nascent fields of computer science and neuroscience. ...

There are three key ideas. First is that the mind is "cognitive", or that the mind actually contains mental states, beliefs, doubts, and so on. Second, he argued that most of the important properties of language and mind are innate. The acquisition and development of a language is a result of the unfolding of innate propensities triggered by the experiential input of the external environment. Subsequent psychologists have extended this general "nativist" thesis beyond language. Lastly, Chomsky made the concept of "modularity" a critical feature of the mind's cognitive architecture. The mind is composed of an array of interacting, specialized subsystems with limited flows of inter-communication. This model contrasts sharply with the old idea that any piece of information in the mind could be accessed by any other cognitive process (optical illusions, for example, cannot be "turned off" even when they are known to be illusions). A typical phrenology chart depicts the modules of the human mind as compartmentalised physical locations in the brain. ...

Opinion on criticism of science culture

Chomsky strongly disagrees with post-structuralist and postmodern criticisms of science: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated pomo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ...

I have spent a lot of my life working on questions such as these, using the only methods I know of; those condemned here as "science", "rationality", "logic" and so on. I therefore read the papers with some hope that they would help me "transcend" these limitations, or perhaps suggest an entirely different course. I'm afraid I was disappointed. Admittedly, that may be my own limitation. Quite regularly, "my eyes glaze over" when I read polysyllabic discourse on the themes of poststructuralism and postmodernism; what I understand is largely truism or error, but that is only a fraction of the total word count. True, there are lots of other things I don't understand: the articles in the current issues of math and physics journals, for example. But there is a difference. In the latter case, I know how to get to understand them, and have done so, in cases of particular interest to me; and I also know that people in these fields can explain the contents to me at my level, so that I can gain what (partial) understanding I may want. In contrast, no one seems to be able to explain to me why the latest post-this-and-that is (for the most part) other than truism, error, or gibberish, and I do not know how to proceed.

Chomsky has also commented on critiques of "white male science", stating that they are much like the anti-Semitic and politically motivated attacks against "Jewish physics" used by the Nazis to denigrate research done by Jewish scientists during the Deutsche Physik movement: The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Deutsche Physik (literally: German Physics) or Aryan Physics was the name given to a nationalist movement in the German physics community in the early 1930s against the work of Albert Einstein, labeled Jewish Physics. ...

In fact, the entire idea of "white male science" reminds me, I'm afraid, of "Jewish physics". Perhaps it is another inadequacy of mine, but when I read a scientific paper, I can't tell whether the author is white or is male. The same is true of discussion of work in class, the office, or somewhere else. I rather doubt that the non-white, non-male students, friends, and colleagues with whom I work would be much impressed with the doctrine that their thinking and understanding differ from "white male science" because of their "culture or gender and race." I suspect that "surprise" would not be quite the proper word for their reaction.^[14]

Chomsky's influence in other fields

Chomskyan models have been used as a theoretical basis in several other fields. The Chomsky hierarchy is often taught in fundamental computer science courses as it confers insight into the various types of formal languages. This hierarchy can also be discussed in mathematical terms^[15] and has generated interest among mathematicians, particularly combinatorialists. A number of arguments in evolutionary psychology are derived from his research results. The Chomsky hierarchy is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars that generate formal languages. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... In mathematics, logic, and computer science, a formal language is a set of finite-length words (i. ... Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that studies collections (usually finite) of objects that satisfy specified criteria. ... Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated ev-psych or EP) is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain certain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as evolved adaptations, i. ...

The 1984 Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine and Physiology, Niels K. Jerne, used Chomsky's generative model to explain the human immune system, equating "components of a generative grammar ... with various features of protein structures". The title of Jerne's Stockholm Nobel lecture was "The Generative Grammar of the Immune System". Niels Kaj Jerne (December 23, 1911 - October 7, 1994) was a British-Danish-Swedish (English-born) immunologist. ...

Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who was the subject of a study in animal language acquisition at Columbia University, was named after Chomsky in reference to his view of language acquisition as a uniquely human ability. Nim Chimpsky (1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee who was the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition (code named 6. ... In linguistics, animal language acquisition (ALA) refers to controversial claims and experiments which assert, or are otherwised based in a view that non-human animals hold abilities for generating and communicating the symbols of abstract language, though they have not manifest such abilities in nature. ... Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... Language acquisition is the process by which the language capability develops in a human. ...

Political views

Main article: Politics of Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky has been engaged in political activism all of his adult life and expressed a wide range of opinions on politics and world events which are widely cited, publicized and discussed. Within the United States, many consider his views to be on the far end of the political spectrum, and thus outside the mainstream. Chomsky has in turn argued that his views are those which the powerful "don't want to be heard" and for this reason he is often termed and considered an American political dissident. Some highlights of his political views: Noam Chomsky is a widely known intellectual with a wide range of political activism, and criticisms of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. ... A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively opposes an established opinion, policy, or structure. ...

• Much of his political writings offer very strong criticisms of the foreign policy of the United States. Specifically, he denounces what he considers to be the "double standards" of the US government, which he claims results in massive human rights violations. Chomsky argues that while the U.S. may preach democracy and freedom for all, the U.S. has a history of doing exactly the opposite by promoting, supporting and allying itself with non-democratic and repressive organizations and states.
• He has argued that the mass media in the United States largely serves as a propaganda arm of the U.S. government and U.S. corporations, with the three parties all largely intertwined through common interests. In a famous reference to Walter Lippmann, Edward S. Herman and Chomsky have said that the American media "manufactures consent" among the public.
• He has opposed the U.S. global war on drugs, claiming its language to be misleading, and referring to it as "The war on certain drugs". He favors education and prevention in the issue, as opposed to military and police action.^[16]

"US domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control"^[17]

• Critical of the American capitalist system and big business, he describes himself as a libertarian socialist who sympathizes with anarcho-syndicalism and is highly critical of Leninist branches of socialism. He also believes that libertarian socialist values exemplify the rational and morally consistent extension of original unreconstructed classical liberal and radical humanist ideas to an industrial context. He believes that the radical humanist ideas of his two major influences, Bertrand Russell and John Dewey, were "rooted in the Enlightenment and classical liberalism, and retain their revolutionary character.".^[18]
• He holds views that can be summarized as anti-war but not strictly pacifist. He prominently opposed the Vietnam War and most other wars in his lifetime. However, he maintains that U.S. involvement in World War II was probably justified, with the caveat that a preferable outcome would have been to end or prevent the war through earlier diplomacy. In particular, he believes that the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was "among the most unspeakable crimes in history".^[19]
• He has a view of broad free-speech rights, especially in the mass media; he opposes censorship and refuses to take legal action against those who may have libeled him.

Chomsky has made connections between his linguistics research and more political topics. An example is a 1971 debate with French philosopher Michel Foucault on the question of human nature, where Chomsky used the idea of innate linguistic capacity to criticize the idea that all human values and knowledge are entirely conditioned by societal conditions. However, Chomsky makes such connections only rarely, and is generally critical of the idea that competent discussion of political topics requires expert knowledge in academic fields. In a 1969 interview, he said regarding the connection between his politics and his work in linguistics: This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... An Australian anti-conscription propaganda poster from World War One Propaganda is a certain type of message presentation directly aimed at manipulating the opinions or behavior of people, rather than impartially providing information. ... ... Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974) was an influential United States writer, journalist, and political commentator. ... Edward S. Herman is an economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. ... Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, first published in 1988. ... Massive mark-ups for drugs, UK Govt report Prevalance of drug use 1991-2002 The War on Drugs is an initiative undertaken by the United States with the assistance of participating countries, which is intended to curb supply and diminish demand for certain psychoactive substances. ... In economics, a capitalist is someone who owns capital, presumably within the economic system of capitalism. ... Libertarian socialism is a political philosophy dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, in particular the institutions of capitalism and the state. ... Anarcho-syndicalist flag. ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ... Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. ... John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... The Japanese city of Hiroshima ) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ChÅ«goku region of western HonshÅ«, the largest of Japans islands. ... Nagasaki (Japanese: 長崎市, Nagasaki-shi  , long peninsula) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan. ... Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... Censorship is the editing, removing, or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. ... Libel redirects here. ... Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ; English-speakers pronunciation varies) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher. ... Human nature is the fundamental nature and substance of humans, as well as the range of human behavior that is believed to be invariant over long periods of time and across very different cultural contexts. ...

I still feel myself that there is a kind of tenuous connection. I would not want to overstate it but I think it means something to me at least. I think that anyone's political ideas or their ideas of social organization must be rooted ultimately in some concept of human nature and human needs. (New Left Review, 57, Sep-Oct 1969, pg. 21)

On September 20, 2006, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez gave Chomsky's book entitled Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance a sales boost, raising it to first place on the Amazon.com bestsellers list after he recommended it during his speech at the U.N. General Assembly. Chávez stated that it was a good book to read because it demonstrates why the greatest danger to world peace currently is the United States, causing a prolonged round of applause from the majority of the General Assembly. The New York Times erroneously reported that Chavez said he regretted not being able to meet Chomsky before his death, not knowing he was still alive. Subsequently, the Times published an acknowledgement of the error.[6] Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (IPA: ) (born July 28, 1954) is the 53rd[1] and current President of Venezuela. ... The United Nations General Assembly (GA) is one of the five principal organs of the United Nations. ...

Criticism of Chomsky's politics

Main article: Criticism of Noam Chomsky

Chomsky has acquired many critics from both the right and left ends of the political spectrum. Despite his Jewish heritage he has been accused of "anti-semitism" for his views on Israel's foreign policy and his involvement in the Faurisson affair, among other issues. Chomsky has argued that his actions in the Faurisson affair were limited to a defense of the rights of free expression of someone he disagrees with, and that critics subsequently subjected this limited defence to various interpretations. [7] His critics contend that Chomsky went further than a defence of free speech, effectively protecting the character of a holocaust denier as well as supporting the legitimacy of his research. Criticism of Noam Chomsky - the linguist and social critic - typically centers on his political writings on American political and military power. ... Robert Faurisson The Faurisson affair is a term given to an academic controversy in wake of a book by Robert Faurisson, a Holocaust denier. ...

In the late 1970s he was accused of apologism for the Khmer Rouge, after he and Edward S. Herman charged that publicized accounts of the Cambodian genocide, also known as the Killing Fields, in the Western media were anti-communist propaganda. [8] Some of the Khmer Rouge leadership during their period in power. ... Edward S. Herman is an economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. ... Democratic Kampuchea (in Khmer, កម្ពុជា ប្រជាផិបតេយ្យ ) was the official name of Cambodia under the government of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge party from 1975 until 1979. ... See also: The Killing Fields. ...

Chomsky has also received criticism from many revolutionary anarchists who claim he is too much of a reformist, in that he encourages some level of participation in the electoral system. ^{[citation needed]}

Academic achievements, awards and honors

In the spring of 1969 he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University; in January 1970 he delivered the Bertrand Russell Memorial Lecture at Cambridge University; in 1972, the Nehru Memorial Lecture in New Delhi; in 1977, the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden; in 1988 the Massey Lectures at the University of Toronto titled "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies"; and in 1997, The Davie Memorial Lecture on Academic Freedom in Cape Town, among many others. John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was an influential English philosopher. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. ... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Jawaharlal Nehru (जवाहरलाल नेहरू) (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964), also called Pandit (Teacher) Nehru, was the leader of the (moderately) socialist wing of the Indian National Congress during and after Indias struggle for independence from the British... An Aerial view of New Delhi The Humayuns Tomb, situated in New Delhi, has an architectural design similar to the Taj Mahal. ... Leyden redirects here. ... The Massey Lectures are a prestigious annual event in Canada, in which a noted Canadian or international scholar gives a week-long series of lectures on a political, cultural or philosophical topic. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario. ... City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Location of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape Province Province Western Cape Mayor Helen Zille Area  - % water 2,499 km² N/A Population  - Total (2004)  - Density Not ranked 2,893,251 1,158/km² Established 1652 Time zone SAST (UTC+2...

Noam Chomsky has received many honorary degrees from the most prestigious universities around the world, including the following: University of London, University of Chicago, Loyola University of Chicago, Swarthmore College, Delhi University, Bard College, University of Massachusetts, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Amherst College, Cambridge University, University of Buenos Aires, McGill University, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Columbia University, University of Connecticut, , University of Maine, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, Harvard University, Universidad de Chile, University of Calcutta, Universidad Nacional De Colombia, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. In addition, he is a member of other professional and learned societies in the United States and abroad, and is a recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, the Helmholtz Medal, the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award, the Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, and others. He is twice winner of The Orwell Award, granted by The National Council of Teachers of English for "Distinguished Contributions to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language" [9]. Early in his career Chomsky was granted the prestigious MacArthur Award. The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... The American Philosophical Society is a discussion group founded as the Junto in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. ... The American Psychological Association (APA) is a professional organization representing psychology in the US. It has around 150,000 members and an annual budget of around $70m. ... The NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language (the Orwell Award for short), established in 1975 and given by the NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak, recognizes writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ...

Chomsky was voted the leading living public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll conducted by the British magazine Prospect. He reacted, saying "I don't pay a lot of attention to polls" [10]. In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted seventh in the list of "Heroes of our time".^[20] An intellectual is a person who uses their intellect to study, reflect, and speculate on a variety of different ideas. ... Some of the public intellectuals who won The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll. ... Prospect is a left-wing monthly British essay and comment magazine covering a wide range of topics, but specialising in politics and current affairs. ... The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ...

References

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Authors on Chomsky

• Rai, Milan (1995). [Broken Chomsky's Politics]. Verso. ISBN 1-85984-011-6. Retrieved on 2006-09-05.
• Barsky, Robert (1997). Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-52255-1.
• Goldsmith, John (1998). "Review of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent, by Robert Barsky". Journal of the History of the Behaviorial Sciences 34 (2): 173-180. Retrieved on 2006-09-04.
• Dershowitz, Alan (May 10, 2002). "Chomsky’s Immoral Divestiture Petition". The Tech 122 (25). Retrieved on 2006-09-04.
• Roy, Arundhati (2003-08-24). "The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2006-09-05.
• (2004) Collier, Peter; Horowitz, David: The Anti-Chomsky Reader. Encounter Books. ISBN 1-893554-97-X.
• Pateman, Trevor (2004). Wittgensteinians and Chomskyans: In Defence of Mentalism, Language in Mind and Language in Society.
• Blackburn, Robin; Kamm, Oliver (November 2005). "For and Against Chomsky" (PDF). Prospect (116). Retrieved on 2006-09-04.
• (2005) McGilvray, James: The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. DOI:10.2277/0521780136. ISBN 0-521-78013-6.
• Paradis, Michel (2005). Review of Government in the Future, by Noam Chomsky. Oxonian Review of Books 2005 4.3: 4-5
• Schoneberger, T. (2000). A Departure from cognitivism: Implications of Chomsky's second revolution in linguistics. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 17, 57-73.
• Sperlich, Wolfgang B. (2006). Noam Chomsky. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 1-86189-269-1. Retrieved on 2006-09-05.

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Bibliography

Linguistics

See a full bibliography on Chomsky's MIT homepage [11].

• Chomsky (1951). Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew. Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
• Chomsky (1955). Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory.
• Chomsky (1955). Transformational Analysis. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
• Chomsky, Noam, Morris Halle, and Fred Lukoff (1956). "On accent and juncture in English." In For Roman Jakobson. The Hague: Mouton
• Chomsky (1957). Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton. Reprint. Berlin and New York (1985).
• Chomsky (1964). Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.
• Chomsky (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
• Chomsky (1965). Cartesian Linguistics. New York: Harper and Row. Reprint. Cartesian Linguistics. A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1986.
• Chomsky (1966). Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar.
• Chomsky, Noam, and Morris Halle (1968). The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper & Row.
• Chomsky (1968). Language and Mind.
• Chomsky (1972). Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar.
• Chomsky (1975). The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory.
• Chomsky (1975). Reflections on Language.
• Chomsky (1977). Essays on Form and Interpretation.
• Chomsky (1979). Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew.
• Chomsky (1980). Rules and Representations.
• Chomsky (1981). Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures. Holland: Foris Publications. Reprint. 7th Edition. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
• Chomsky (1982). Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding.
• Chomsky (1982). Language and the Study of Mind.
• Chomsky (1982). Noam Chomsky on The Generative Enterprise, A discussion with Riny Hyybregts and Henk van Riemsdijk.
• Chomsky (1984). Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind.
• Chomsky (1986). Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use.
• Chomsky (1986). Barriers. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Thirteen. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.
• Chomsky (1993). Language and Thought.
• Chomsky (1995). The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Chomsky (1998). On Language.
• Chomsky (2000). New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind.
• Chomsky (2000). The Architecture of Language (Mukherji, et al, eds.).
• Chomsky (2001). On Nature and Language (Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi, ed.).
• Chomsky, N. & Place, U.T. (2000). "The Chomsky-Place correspondence 1993-1994". Edited, with an introduction and suggested readings, by T. Schoneberger. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 17, 7-38.

Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz, is an American linguist. ... Syntactic Structures is the name of an influential book by Noam Chomsky first published in 1957. ... The Sound Pattern of English (frequently referred to as SPE) is a work on phonology (a branch of linguistics) by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. ...

Computer science

• Chomsky (1956). Three models for the description of language. I.R.E. Transactions on Information Theory, vol. IT-2, no. 3: 113-24.

Politics

• (1969). American Power and the New Mandarins
• (1970). "Notes on Anarchism", New York Review of Books
• (1970). At war with Asia
• (1970). Two Essays on Cambodia
• (1971). Chomsky: selected readings
• (1971). Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
• (1973). For Reasons of State
• (1974). Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
• (1976). Intellectuals and the State
• (1978). Human Rights and American Foreign Policy
• (1979). After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (with Edward Herman)
• (1979). Language and Responsibility
• (1979). The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (with Edward Herman)
• (1981). Radical Priorities
• (1982). Superpowers in collision: the cold war now
• (1982). Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
• (1983). The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians
• (1985). Turning the Tide : U.S. intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace
• (1986). Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism in the Real World
• (1986). The Race to Destruction: Its Rational Basis
• (1987). The Chomsky Reader
• (1987). On Power and Ideology
• (1987). Turning the Tide: the U.S. and Latin America
• (1988). The Culture of Terrorism
• (1988). Language and Politics
• (1988). Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Edward Herman)
• (1989). Necessary Illusions
• (1991). Terrorizing the Neighborhood
• (1992). What Uncle Sam Really Wants
• (1992). Chronicles of Dissent
• (1992). Deterring Democracy
• (1993). Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda
• (1993). The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
• (1993). Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture
• (1993). World Order and Its Rules: Variations on Some Themes
• (1993). Year 501: The Conquest Continues
• (1994). Keeping the rabble in Line
• (1994). Secrets, Lies, and Democracy
• (1994). World Orders, Old and New
• (1996). Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
• (1996). Class Warfare
• (1997). Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
• (1997). One Chapter, The Cold War and the University
• (1998). The Culture of Terrorism
• (1999). The Umbrella of US Power
• (1999). The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo
• (1999). Profit over People
• (1999). The Fateful Triangle
• (2000). Rogue States
• (2001). Propaganda and the Public Mind
• (2001). 9-11
• (2002). Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
• (2002). Media control
• (2002). Linguaggio e politica, Di Renzo Editore, Roma
• (2003). Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
• (2003). Znet article, Deep Concerns
• (2004). Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
• (2004). Getting Haiti Right This Time (with Paul Farmer)
• (2005). Chomsky on Anarchism
• (2005) Government in the future. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1-58322-685-0.
• (2005). Imperial Ambitions - Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
• (2006). Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
• (2006). Perilous Power. The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy. Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice (with Gilbert Achcar)

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Biographies

• Barsky, Robert (1997). Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-52255-1. Retrieved on 2006-09-05.
• Sperlich, Wolfgang B. (2006). Noam Chomsky. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 1-86189-269-1. Retrieved on 2006-09-05.

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Filmography

• Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Director: Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick (1992)
• Last Party 2000, Director: Rebecca Chaiklin and Donovan Leitch (2001)
• Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times, Director: John Junkerman (2002)
• Distorted Morality — America's War On Terror?, Director: John Junkerman (2003)
• Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (TV), Director: Will Pascoe (2003)
• The Corporation, Director: Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar (2003)
• Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land, Directors: Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff (2004)

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Interviews

By Maria Hinojosa

• Noam Chomsky on America's Foreign Policy

By Andrew Marr

• The Big Idea

By David Barsamian

• Keeping the Rabble in Line (1994)
• Class Warfare (1996)
• The Common Good (1998)
• Propaganda and the Public Mind (2001)
• Imperial Ambitions - Conversations With Noam Chomsky On The Post-9/11 World (2005)

By others

• See complete list of interviews here: chomsky.info

See also

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Noam Chomsky

• Politics of Noam Chomsky
• Criticism of Noam Chomsky
• Language acquisition
• Chomskybot
• Chomsky hierarchy
• Important publications in computability
• "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
• Intellectual worker
• Nim Chimpsky
• Propaganda model
• The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by David Horowitz
• English studies

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External links

• Official website
• Chavez Cites Chomsky at UN General Assembly Sept. 20, 2006
• Why It's Over For America, by Noam Chomsky, The Independent, May 30, 2006
• Latest ZNet forum replies (you might need to log in as a guest first.)
• Pseudo-weblog (Chomsky doesn't blog; subset of forum replies)
• MIT homepage
• Noam Chomsky at the Internet Movie Database
• Noam Chomsky at the Notable Names Database
• ZNet: Noam Chomsky Archive
• Interview with Noam Chomsky, June 1, 2003 C-Span's Book TV
• A-Infos Radio Project: Talks by Noam Chomsky (MP3)
• Chomsky Torrents — video and audio (BitTorrent)
• Internet Archive Chomsky media files
• Example of Chomsky's views on the Free Market
• Conversation with Noam Chomsky
• Noam Chomsky Video Clips (QuickTime, .mov, format)
• Noam Chomsky "Just War Theory" at West Point May 27, 2006 C-Span 2
• Noam Chomsky on NATO's Kosovo Campaign (Danilo Mandic, RTS).
• Noam Chomsky talking about the current Lebanon and Israel conflict 2006 video
• Webster Tarpley interviews Barry Zwicker on Chomsky on RBNLive (at the 35:00 minute mark in the interview)
• NY Times article on Chomsky -- September 22, 2006
• Noam Chomsky A resource from Tidsskriftcentret.dk in English & Scandinavian.
• The Chomsky Viewer Video compilation of Chomsky with other activists in PowerPoint format.
• Noam Chomsky talking about the current crisis in the Middle East
• [http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=380 Noam Chomsky talks about Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance video

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Bibliographies at the University Library of Graz Bibliography (from Greek βιβλιογραφία, lit. ... Syntactic Structures is the name of an influential book by Noam Chomsky first published in 1957. ... The Sound Pattern of English (frequently referred to as SPE) is a work on phonology (a branch of linguistics) by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. ... Fateful Triangle is a 1983 book by Noam Chomsky about the relationship between America, Israel and the Arab Palestinians. ... Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, first published in 1988. ... Necessary Illusions is a book by Noam Chomsky about how political power uses propaganda to distort and distract from real issues to maintain confusion and complicity, preventing real democracy from becoming effective. ... Deterring Democracy is a book published in 1992 Noam Chomsky, which explores the differences between the rhetoric and reality of United States forign policy and how it affects various countries around the world. ... Class conflict is both the friction that accompanies social relationships between members or groups of different social classes and the underlying tensions or antagonisms which exist in society. ... Hegemony or Survival: Americas Quest for Global Dominance, published November 2003 is a book by Noam Chomsky, a macroscopic view of United States foreign policy from World War II to the post-Iraq War reconstruction. ... Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0-8050-7912-2) is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 2006, in which Chomsky argues that the United States is a “failed state,” and thus a danger to its own people and the world. ... Film refers to the celluloid medium on which movies are printed. ... Manufacturing Consent movie poster Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) is a documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual, and political activist. ... The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film and book critical of the modern-day corporation and its behaviour towards society. ... Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land is a somewhat controversial 2004 documentary which shows the influence of Israeli propaganda on American media coverage of the Israel/Palestine dispute. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... East Oak Lane is a neighborhood in the Northern section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. ...