Chomsky

(c̸hämskē)

Chomsky, (Avram) Noam 1928-; U.S. linguist & educator

See Chomsky in American Heritage Dictionary 4

American linguist and political theorist who revolutionized the study of language with his theory of generative grammar, set forth in Syntactic Structures (1957).

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  • Chom·sky·an, Chom·ski·an (-skē-ən) adjective
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