1. AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY

2. Linguistics itself is a discipline of cognitive psychology and strives to understand how language is learned and used by children.

3. Psychologist Linguistic Political activist

4. 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

5. Central High School of Philadelphia

7. 1955 he left Harvard and entered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Until now…

8. He married Doris Schatz They had two daugthers an a son

10. every language had similar parameters that could be manipulated and modified Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth Bates Contribution to the field of phonology

11. benjamin franklin medal on computer and cognitive science the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

12. Michel Foucault social structures determine human values, personality, and social problems human nature is heavily determined by biology

13. Chomsky is known as a vigorous debater: William F. Buckley Christopher Hitchens Alan Dershowitz

15. 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

16. Syntactic Structures challenges structural linguistics and introduces transformational grammar.

17. Chomsky says that a formal grammar of a language can explain the ability of a hearer- speaker to produce and interpret an infinite number of utterances. Another important contribution

18. Universal grammar (lack of LAD ) LAD ( languaje acquisition device) UG (universal grammar)

19. the strongest evidence for the existence of Universal Grammar is simply the fact that children successfully acquire their native languages in so little time

20. 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.