Noam Chomsky

Linguist | Cognitive Scientist | Political Activist

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I'm gonna miss working at MIT

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Here's a link to a good article about my impact on linguistics https://t.co/VcCOho17bM

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The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the creativity of language, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately understood by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are familiar

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Me teaching linguistics at MIT. I've been working there since 1955.

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Check out some documents in my archive at MIT https://t.co/IrJ2XsJMmd

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Buy my book: The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory

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#TB to when I was named man of the year at MIT

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B.F. Skinner was wrong. Language cannot be learned through observation only. It is cognitive and innate.

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Sneak peak of one of my unpublished drafts

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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.