Noam Chomsky, one of the most famous linguists of the twentieth century, based his linguistic works

on certain philosophical doctrines. His main contribution to linguistics is Transformational Generative

Grammar, which is founded on mentalist philosophy. He opposes the behaviourist psychology in
favour of innatism for explaining the acquisition of language. He claims that it becomes possible for
human child to learn a language for the linguistic faculty with which the child is born, and that the
use of language for an adult is mostly a mental exercise. His ideas brought about a revolution in
linguistics, dubbed as Chomskyan Revolution. According to him, the part of language which is innate
to human being would be called Universal Grammar. His philosophy holds a strong propensity to
rationalism in search of a cognitive foundation. His theory is a continuation of analytic philosophy,
which puts language in the centre of philosophical investigation. He would also be identified as an
essentialist. This paper considers various aspects of Chomskys linguistic philosophy with necessary
elaborations.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/pp.v51i1-2.17681
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How do people learn a language?

Do we learn language the way we learn everything?

Or is there some special way our brain learns a language?

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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship (1971)

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1972)
APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1984)
Orwell Award (1987, 1989)
Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (1988)
Helmholtz Medal (1996)
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (1999)
Sydney Peace Prize (2011)
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (2014)
Academic background
Education University of Pennsylvania (BA, MA, PhD)
Thesis Transformational Analysis (1955)
Doctoral advisor Zellig Harris
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Discipline Linguistics, analytic philosophy, cognitive science, political criticism

Institutions University of Arizona (2017–present)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1955–present)
Institute for Advanced Study (1958–1959)
Website https://chomsky.info
Born Avram Noam Chomsky
December 7, 1928 (age 93)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse(s) Carol Doris Schatz
(m. 1949; died 2008)
Valeria Wasserman
(m. 2014)
Children 3, including Aviva
Parent(s) William Chomsky
Elsie Simonofsky
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship (1971)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1972)
APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to
Psychology (1984)
Orwell Award (1987, 1989)
 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (1988)
Helmholtz Medal (1996)
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (1999)
Sydney Peace Prize (2011)
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (2014)
Academic background
Education University of Pennsylvania (BA, MA, PhD)
Thesis Transformational Analysis (1955)
Doctoral advisor Zellig Harris [1]

Discipline Linguistics, analytic philosophy, cognitive science, political criticism

Institutions University of Arizona (2017–present)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1955–present)
Institute for Advanced Study (1958–1959)
Website https://chomsky.info
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