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Chom⋅sky

[chom-skee]
–noun
(Avram) Noam [nohm, noh-uhm] , born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
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Chom·sky   (chŏm'skē)   
American linguist and political theorist who revolutionized the study of language with his theory of generative grammar, set forth in Syntactic Structures (1957).
Chom·sky·an, Chom·ski·an (-skē-ən) adj.
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Chomsky, Noam

A twentieth-century American linguist and political theorist. His revolutionary Syntactic Structures argued that all children are born with an innate knowledge of grammar.

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