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Chomsky
Chom·sky
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ski
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noun
(Avram) Noam
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noʊm
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əm
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,
born 1928,
U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
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Chomsky
(ˈtʃɒmskɪ)
—
n
(
Avram
)
Noam
(ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield
'Chomskyan
—
n
, —
adj
'Chomskyite
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n
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adj
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