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01b00 Noam Avram Chomsky was born in 00, 00 on December 7, 1928. He received his early education at 00 00 00 00 and 00 00, 00. He continued his education at the 05000 where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. In 1955, he received his Ph. D. from the 00 of 00, however, most of the research leading to this degree was done at 05100 between 1951 and 1955. Since receiving his Ph. D., Chomsky has taught at 05200, where he now holds the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics. Noam was married to Carol Schatz on December 24, 1949 and has two children. 02b02br
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01b00 Chomsky has made his reputation in linguistics. He learned some of the historical principles of linguistics from his father, William, who was a Hebrew scholar. In fact, some of his early research, which he did for his Masters, was on the modern spoken Hebrew language. Among his many accomplishments, he is most famous for his work on generative grammar, which developed from his interest in modern logic and mathematical foundations. As a result, he applied it to the description of natural languages. As a student, Noam was heavily influenced by Zellig Harris, who was Professor of Linguistics at the 00. It was Chomsky’s sympathy to Harris’s political views that steered him toward work as a graduate student in linguistics. 02b02br
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01b00 Noam has always been interested in politics, and it is said that politics has brought him into the linguistics field. His political tendencies toward socialism and anarchism are a result of what he calls "the radical Jewish community in 00." Since 1965 he has become one of the leading critics of 00 foreign policy. He published a book of essays called American Power and the New Mandarins which is considered to be one of the most substantial arguments ever against American involvement in 00. 02b02br
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01b00 Chomsky is very respected and has been honored numerous times in the academic arena. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of London and the University of Chicago, as well as having been invited to lecture all over the world. In 1967, he delivered the Beckman Lectures at the 05300. In 1969, he presented the John Locke Lectures at the 05400 and 00 Memorial Lectures at the 05500. 02b02br
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01b00 Noam Chomsky was born December 00 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of William Chomsky, an emigrant from 00. His father was a teacher of Hebrew and published a scholarly edition of a medieval Hebrew grammar. Between 1940 and1945 he became acquainted with the workings of the socialist-anarchist 00 Jewish intellectual community and considered emigrating to 00 to work for Arab-Jewish cooperation. 02b02br
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01b00 Between 1945 and1950 Chomsky was a student at the 00 and began his study of linguistics. During this time, he proofread Zellig Harris’s 01u00Methods in Structural Linguistics02u00 and developed a sympathy for Harris’s ideas on politics. He was also a student of Nelson Goodman, the radical-empiricist philosopher. In 1951, he accepted nomination by Goodman as a Junior Fellow to 00. In 1953, Chomsky traveled to 00. En route, he resolved that his attempt to formalize structural linguistics would not work because language was a highly abstract generative phenomenon. Determined that his further work should concern models of this phenomenon. 02b02br
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01b00 During the year of 1955, he left his Fellowship at 00 and obtained a position at MIT where he taught for the next 19 years. He was also married to Carol Chomsky, a Professor at Harvard. Noam now holds Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Between 1965 and1973, he played a major role in the American resistance against the Vietnamese policy of the United States Government, he published views on Southeast Asia and United States policy in magazines such as New York Review of Books and Ramparts and spent a week in North Vietnam just before Cambodian invasion. Truly, Noam Chomsky is an impressive man. 02b02br
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01b00Lyons, John. 01i00Modern Masters: Noam Chomsky02i00. 00: The Viking Press, 1970. 02b02br
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01b00Rai, 00. 01i00Chomsky’s Politics02i00. 00: Verso, 1995. 02b02br
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01b00Leiber, Justin. 01i00Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview02i00. 00: G.K. Hall and Co., 1975. 02b02br
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