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Chomsky

[ chom-skee ]
/ ˈtʃɒm ski /

noun

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

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Words nearby Chomsky

chommie, Chomo Lhari, Chomolungma, chomophyte, chomp, Chomsky, Chomskyan, Chomsky, Noam, chon, chondr-, chondral
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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 His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield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, adjective
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