Chomsky
[ chom-skee ]
/ ˈtʃɒm ski /
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noun
(Avram) Noam [nohm, noh-uhm], /noʊm, ˈnoʊ əm/, born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
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Chomsky
/ (ˈtʃɒmskɪ) /
noun
(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 His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield
Derived forms of Chomsky
Chomskyan or Chomskyite, noun, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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