His Journey to Zenith: NOAM CHOMSKY

HIS JOURNEY TO ZENITH
A Presentation For Introduction to Graduate
Studies and Research
Prepared By :Mohammad Mosiur Rahman
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015 2MOHAMMAD MOSIUR RAHMAN

 Voted as the most influential living intellectual
and seventh among the “heroes of all time “ and
the eighth most cited source overall
Member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences
and the American Philosophical Society
 39 honorary degrees from the leading
universities of the world.
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3MOHAMMAD MOSIUR RAHMAN

In 2013, a newly described species of bee
was named after him: Megachile Chomsky
 A recipient of the Distinguished Scientific
Contribution Award of the American
Psychological Association
 Chomsky was awarded the “Sydney
Peace Prize”
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MOHAMMAD MOSIUR RAHMAN

The “Kyoto Prize” in Basic Sciences
 He is twice winner of The Orwell Award,
granted by The National Council of
Teachers of English for "Distinguished
Contributions to Honesty and Clarity in
Public Language

Father of
modern
linguistics
Cognitive
Scientist
Logician and
computer
Scientist
Philosopher

William Chomsky : Father of Noam Chomsky
and Prominent Hebrew Linguists
George Orwell, was an English novelist,
essayist, journalist and critic.
 Rudolf Rocker : anarcho-syndicalist writer
and activist.
 René Descartes : Metaphysics,
epistemology, mathematics
Immanuel Kant : Epistemology,
Metaphysics, Ethics.
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 Bertrand Russell : Epistemology, Ethics,
Logic, Mathematics, Metaphysics,
Philosophy of language.
 David Hume: Scottish philosopher,
historian, economist.
 Hebrew literature : He started his work in
the field of linguistics with Hebrew
literature.
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"cognitive science “
 "The Chomsky hierarchy "
 The psychology of language acquisition
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 Religious view : Unstated
Political view : "socialist anarchist"
Field of interest : “Analytic philosophy”
Present day democracy
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Father of modern linguistics.
Professor emeritus of linguistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Head of the department of linguistics
University of Harvard.
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 Syntax
 Semantics
 Generative Grammar
 Transformational Grammar
 Language acquisition
 Second language acquisition
 Interlanguage
 language competence
Language performance
 Generalization of language
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 Two most significant work in the field of
linguistics-
*Transformational Generative Grammar
and
*Mentalist/minimalist view of language
acquisition .

 Recognizes the relationship among the
various elements of a sentence
 Formation of Possible sentences of a
language using its rules.
 Transformable elements of the sentence.

Though Language is an independent
instinct but Generative Grammar works to
provide a set of rules that can accurately
predict which combinations of words are
able to make grammatically correct
sentences.
Subject verb object
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Transformational grammar is a form of
language analysis that establishes a
relationship with the different elements in
the sentence of a language which is
transformational.
- Asif wrote a letter (Active )
- A letter is written by Asif ( Passive)
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 Transformational Generative Grammar
could be transformed into two structure or
meaning –
* Syntactic structure (surface meaning)
- Phonetics or sound
* Semantic Relation (deeper meaning )

 Mentalist view of language acquisition
built based on the role of nature or how
innate properties of human mind shape
learning language.
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“Our brain has a seat for language”
Major elements to distinguish the theory-
-Language acquisition device (LAD)
-Universal Grammar (UG)
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 Universal Grammar or UG contains a
limited set of rules for organizing language
based on the assumption that all
languages have a common structural
basis. This set of rules is known as
universal grammar.
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 Every sentence of all language has
something common . like - a subject, a verb
,an object though may be the sequence is
different .
 Our brain has the sense of acquiring the
language correctly and structurally, which
takes one form grammatically correct and
other is wrong. Like- As a child we naturally
pick the correct form of language.
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 Language acquisition Device is a
hypothetical module of the brain or innate
capacity that responsible for human
language acquisition.
 It is the fact that physical areas of the
brain concerned with production and
comprehension.
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No major difference
Stimulus input vs.
linguistics environment
 Universal Grammar and different
language structure.
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With this book Chomsky struck a fatal blow
at the behaviorist theory of Skinner. At the
same time Chomsky reacted to structural
linguistics that was content with describing
and classifying languages. Chomsky
extended the idea of formal systems to
linguistics by using the logical formalism to
express the grammar of a language
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It presents Chomsky's one of the early
work on the nature and acquisition of
language as a genetically endowed,
biological system (Universal Grammar),
through the rules and principles of which
we acquire an internalized knowledge
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The Sound Pattern of English continue to
be critical to current phonology and in
many instances and the solutions
proposed.
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 The article talks about recent finding on
the B.F. Skinner’s verbal behavior. In the
book syntactic structure he actually
hammered the idea of Skinner’s
behaviorist theory of language and in this
article he added some new supplements.
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1967 marked Chomsky's entry into the
public debate on the United States' foreign
policy. In February he published that
influential essay that He expanded on his
argument to produce his first political book,
American Power and the New Mandarins
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 Hugo Chávez, Christopher Hitchens, Colin
McGinn, Edward Said, Steven Pinker,
John Searle, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Jay
Gould.
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