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Noam Chomsky

Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated August 2025
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Verified for the 2026 examโ€ขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated August 2025

Definition

Noam Chomsky is a renowned linguist and cognitive scientist who proposed the theory of language acquisition known as generative grammar. He argues that humans have an innate ability to acquire and generate language.

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