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  2. Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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    Chomsky discussing ecology, ethics and anarchism in 2014. Chomsky supported the 2011 Occupy movement, speaking at encampments and publishing on the movement, which he called a reaction to a 30-year class war. [140] The 2015 documentary Requiem for the American Dream summarizes his views on capitalism and economic inequality through a "75-minute ...

  3. Language acquisition device - Wikipedia

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    The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. [1] The LAD concept is a purported instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language. It is a component of the nativist theory of language. This theory asserts that humans are born with the ...

  4. X-bar theory - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation [1] that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970 [2] reformulating the ideas of Zellig Harris (1951 [3]), and further developed by Ray Jackendoff (1974, [4] 1977a, [5] 1977b [6]), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the 1950s by Chomsky.

  5. Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky hospitalized in his wife's ...

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    Linguist, activist and social critic Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in his wife's native country of Brazil recovering from a massive stroke he had a year ago, she confirmed Tuesday. Valeria Chomsky ...

  6. Propaganda model - Wikipedia

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    [9] Following the events of September 11, 2001, some scholars agree that Islamophobia is replacing anti-communism as a new source of public fear. [10] Herman and Chomsky noted, in an interview given in 2009, that the popularity of 'anti-communism' as a news filter is slowly decreasing in favor of other more contemporary ideologies such as 'anti ...

  7. Noam Chomsky, 95, recovering in hospital in his wife’s native ...

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    Noam Chomsky has suffered a stroke and is recovering in hospital, his wife has confirmed.. The 95-year-old famed linguist has not been seen in public since June last year, with many commenting on ...

  8. Plato's problem - Wikipedia

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    Noam Chomsky posed Plato's problem. Plato's problem is the term given by Noam Chomsky to "the problem of explaining how we can know so much" given our limited experience. [ 1 ] Chomsky believes that Plato asked (using modern terms) how we should account for the rich, intrinsic, common structure of human cognition, when it seems underdetermined ...

  9. Noam Chomsky's wife says reports of famed linguist's death ...

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    Noam Chomsky's wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports Tuesday that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue. Noam Chomsky, 95, had been hospitalized in Brazil while recovering ...