Chomsky

[ chom-skee ]

noun
  1. (Avram) Noam [nohm, noh-uhm], /noʊm, ˈnoʊ əm/, born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.

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Chomsky

/ (ˈtʃɒmskɪ) /


noun
  1. (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 His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield

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  • Chomskyan or Chomskyite, noun, adjective

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