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| name = Noam Chomsky
| image = Noam Chomsky portrait 2017 retouched.jpg
| alt = A photograph of Noam Chomsky
| caption = Chomsky in 2017
| birth_name = Avram Noam Chomsky
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1928|12|7}}
| birth_place = [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, U.S.
| father = [[William Chomsky]]
| thesis_title = Transformational Analysis
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/89172813
| thesis_year = 1955
| doctoral_advisor = [[Zellig Harris]]
| doctoral_students = {{collapsible list| title = {{nbsp}} | [[Gulsat Aygen|Gülşat Aygen]], [[Mark Baker (linguist)|Mark Baker]], [[Jonathan Bobaljik]], [[Joan Bresnan]], [[Peter Culicover]], [[Ray C. Dougherty]], [[Janet Dean Fodor]], [[John Goldsmith (linguist)|John Goldsmith]], [[C.-T. James Huang]], [[Sabine Iatridou]], [[Ray Jackendoff]], [[Edward Klima]], [[Jan Koster]], [[Jaklin Kornfilt]], [[S.-Y. Kuroda]], [[Howard Lasnik]], [[Robert Lees (linguist)|Robert Lees]], [[Alec Marantz]], [[Diane Massam]], [[James D. McCawley]], [[Jacques Mehler]], [[Andrea Moro]], [[Barbara Partee]], [[David M. Perlmutter|David Perlmutter]], [[David Pesetsky]], [[Tanya Reinhart]], [[John R. Ross]], [[Ivan Sag]], [[Edwin S. Williams]]}}
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{{collapsible list| title = Academic | [[J. L. Austin]], [[William Chomsky]], [[C. West Churchman]], [[René Descartes]], [[Galileo]],{{sfn|Chomsky|1991|p=50}} [[Nelson Goodman]], [[Morris Halle]], [[Zellig Harris]], [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]], [[David Hume]],{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|pp=44–45}} [[Roman Jakobson]], [[Immanuel Kant]],{{sfn|Slife|1993|p=115}} [[George Armitage Miller]], [[Pāṇini]], [[Hilary Putnam]],{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=58}} [[W.&nbsp;V.&nbsp;O. Quine]], [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Ferdinand de Saussure]], [[Marcel-Paul Schützenberger]], [[Alan Turing]],{{sfn|Chomsky|1991|p=50}} [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]{{sfn|Antony|Hornstein|2003|p=295}}
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{{collapsible list| title = Political | [[Mikhail Bakunin]], [[Alex Carey (writer)|Alex Carey]], [[William Chomsky]], [[John Dewey]],{{sfn|Chomsky|2016}} [[Zellig Harris]], [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]],{{sfn|Harbord|1994|p=487}} [[David Hume]],{{sfn|Barsky|2007|p=107}} [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Karl Korsch]], [[Peter Kropotkin]],{{sfn|Barsky|2007|p=107}} [[Karl Liebknecht]], [[Rosa Luxemburg]], [[John Locke]], [[Dwight Macdonald]], [[Paul Mattick]],{{sfn|Barsky|2007|p=107}} [[John Stuart Mill]], [[George Orwell]], [[Anton Pannekoek]], [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]],{{sfn|Smith|2004|p=185}} [[Rudolf Rocker]], [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]],{{sfn|Barsky|2007|p=107}} [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Diego Abad de Santillán]], [[Adam Smith]]{{sfn|Barsky|2007|p=107}}
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{{collapsible list| title = In academia | [[John Backus]], [[Derek Bickerton]], [[Julian C. Boyd]], [[Daniel Dennett]],{{sfn|Amid the Philosophers}} [[Daniel Everett]], [[Jerry Fodor]], [[Gilbert Harman]], [[Marc Hauser]], [[Norbert Hornstein]], [[Niels Kaj Jerne]], [[Donald Knuth]], [[Georges J.&nbsp;F. Köhler]], [[Peter Ludlow]], [[Colin McGinn]],{{sfn|Persson|LaFollette|2013}} [[César Milstein]], [[Steven Pinker]],{{sfn|Prickett|2002|p=234}} [[John Searle]],{{sfn|Searle|1972}} [[Neil Smith (linguist)|Neil Smith]], [[Crispin Wright]]{{sfn|Amid the Philosophers}}
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{{collapsible list| title = In politics | [[Michael Albert]], [[Julian Assange]], [[Bono]],{{sfn|Adams|2003}} [[Jean Bricmont]], [[Hugo Chávez]], [[Zack de la Rocha]], [[Clinton Fernandes]], [[Norman Finkelstein]], [[Robert Fisk]], [[Amy Goodman]], [[Stephen Jay Gould]],{{sfn|Gould|1981}} [[Glenn Greenwald]], [[Christopher Hitchens]],{{sfn|Adams|2003}} [[Naomi Klein]],{{sfn|Adams|2003}} [[Kyle Kulinski]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/kyle-kulinski-bernie-bros-secular-talk-joe-rogan-youtube|title=Kyle Kulinski Speaks, the Bernie Bros Listen|access-date=February 9, 2022|archive-date=March 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305204651/https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/kyle-kulinski-bernie-bros-secular-talk-joe-rogan-youtube|url-status=live}}</ref>
 [[Michael Moore]],{{sfn|Adams|2003}} [[John Nichols (journalist)|John Nichols]], [[Ann Nocenti]],{{sfn|Keller|2007}} [[John Pilger]], [[Harold Pinter]],{{sfn|Adams|2003}} [[Arundhati Roy]], [[Edward Said]], [[Aaron Swartz]]{{sfn|Swartz|2006}}
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| signature = Noam Chomsky signature.svg
| website = {{URL|https://chomsky.info}}
| spouse = {{Plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Carol Chomsky|Carol Schatz]]|1949| December 19, 2008|end=died}}
* {{marriage|Valeria Wasserman|2014}}
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| children = 3, including [[Aviva Chomsky|Aviva]]
| discipline = [[Linguistics]], [[analytic philosophy]], [[cognitive science]], [[political criticism]]
| work_institutions = {{Plainlist|
* [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
* [[University of Arizona]]
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| education = [[University of Pennsylvania]] {{awrap|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[PhD]])}}
| awards = {{collapsible list| title = {{nbsp}} | {{indented plainlist|
* [[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 (Franklin Institute)|Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science]] (1999)
* [[Sydney Peace Prize]] (2011)
* [[Nuclear Age Peace Foundation]] (2014)
   }}
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| notable_works = ''[[Syntactic Structures]]'' (1957), ''[[The Responsibility of Intellectuals]]'' (1967), ''[[Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda]]'' (1973), ''[[Manufacturing Consent]]'' (1988), ''[[How the World Works]]'' (2011), ''[[Requiem for the American Dream]]'' (2017)
| school_tradition = [[Anarcho-syndicalism]], [[libertarian socialism]]
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'''Avram Noam Chomsky'''{{efn|Pronounced {{IPAc-en|n|oʊ|m|_|ˈ|tʃ|ɒ|m|s|k|i|audio=Noam Chomsky.ogg}} {{respell|nohm|_|CHOM|skee}}}} (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and [[public intellectual]] known for his work in [[linguistics]], political activism, and [[social criticism]]. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics",{{efn|name=father}} Chomsky is also a major figure in [[analytic philosophy]] and one of the founders of the field of [[cognitive science]]. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the [[University of Arizona]] and an [[institute professor]] emeritus at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s Chomsky has been an influential voice on the [[American Left|American left]] as a consistent critic of [[U.S. foreign policy]], [[Criticism of capitalism|contemporary capitalism]], and [[Corporate influence on politics in the United States|corporate influence]] on political institutions and the media.

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Born to [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi Jewish]] immigrants in [[Philadelphia]], Chomsky developed an early interest in [[anarchism]] from alternative bookstores in New York City. He studied at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. During his postgraduate work in the [[Harvard Society of Fellows]], Chomsky developed the theory of [[transformational grammar]] for which he earned his doctorate in 1955. That year he began teaching at MIT, and in 1957 emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work ''[[Syntactic Structures]]'', which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. From 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was a [[National Science Foundation]] fellow at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]]. He created or co-created the [[universal grammar]] theory, the [[generative grammar]] theory, the [[Chomsky hierarchy]], and the [[minimalist program]]. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic [[behaviorism]], and was particularly critical of the work of [[B. F. Skinner]].

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An outspoken [[opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War]], which he saw as an act of [[American imperialism]], in 1967 Chomsky rose to national attention for his [[Anti-war movement|anti-war]] essay "[[The Responsibility of Intellectuals]]". Becoming associated with the [[New Left]], he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President [[Richard Nixon]]'s [[Master list of Nixon's political opponents|list of political opponents]]. While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the [[linguistics wars]]. In collaboration with [[Edward S. Herman]], Chomsky later articulated the [[propaganda model]] of [[media criticism]] in ''[[Manufacturing Consent]]'', and worked to expose the [[Indonesian occupation of East Timor]]. His defense of unconditional [[freedom of speech]], including that of [[Holocaust denial]], generated significant controversy in the [[Faurisson affair]] of the 1980s. Chomsky's commentary on the [[Cambodian genocide]] and the [[Bosnian genocide]] also generated controversy. Since retiring from active teaching at MIT, he has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]] and supporting the [[Occupy movement]]. An [[Anti-Zionism|anti-Zionist]], Chomsky considers [[Israel and apartheid|Israel's treatment of Palestinians]] to be worse than [[Apartheid in South Africa|South African–style apartheid]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/8/8/noam_chomsky_what_israel_is_doing|title=Noam Chomsky: Israel's Actions in Palestine are "Much Worse Than Apartheid" in South Africa|website=Democracy Now!}}</ref> and criticizes U.S. support for Israel.

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Chomsky is widely recognized as having helped to spark the [[cognitive revolution]] in the [[human sciences]], contributing to the development of a new [[Cognitivism (psychology)|cognitivistic]] framework for the study of language and the mind. Chomsky remains a leading critic of [[U.S. foreign policy]], contemporary [[capitalism]], U.S. involvement and Israel's role in the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]], and [[Mass media in the United States|mass media]]. Chomsky and his ideas remain highly influential in the [[anti-capitalist]] and [[anti-imperialist]] movements. In 2023, Chomsky was revealed to have had a close friendship with convicted child sex offender [[Jeffrey Epstein]].

==Life==
===Childhood: 1928–1945===
Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the [[East Oak Lane, Philadelphia|East Oak Lane]] neighborhood of [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xv|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2p=9|3a1=McGilvray|3y=2014|3p=3}} His parents, [[William Chomsky]] and Elsie Simonofsky, were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=9–10|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=11}} William had fled the [[Russian Empire]] from what is present-day [[Ukraine]] in 1913 to escape conscription and worked in Baltimore [[sweatshop]]s and Hebrew elementary schools before attending university.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=9}}<ref>{{cite web | title=Daily Show for November 26, 2004 | website=[[Democracy Now!]] | url=https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2004/11/26 }}</ref> Elsie immigrated from the region of what is present-day [[Belarus]]. Both parents' first language was [[Yiddish]] although it was taboo to speak it at home; his father spoke English with a foreign accent while his mother spoke a native New York City English dialect.<ref>{{cite web | title=Daily Show for November 26, 2004 | website=[[Democracy Now!]] | url=https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2004/11/26 }}</ref> After moving to Philadelphia, William became principal of the [[Congregation Mikveh Israel]] religious school and joined the [[Gratz College]] faculty. He placed great emphasis on educating people so that they would be "well integrated, free and independent in their thinking, concerned about improving and enhancing the world, and eager to participate in making life more meaningful and worthwhile for all", a mission that shaped and was subsequently adopted by his son.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=11}} Elsie, who also taught at Mikveh Israel, shared her leftist politics and care for social issues with her sons.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=11}}

Noam's only sibling, David Eli Chomsky (1934–2021), was born five years later, and worked as a cardiologist in Philadelphia.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=11}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Dr. David Chomsky, a cardiologist who made house calls, dies at 86|url=https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/david-chomsky-obituary-philadelphia-doctor-noam-judith-20210712.html|date=July 12, 2021|first=Valerie|last=Russ|newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|access-date=September 10, 2021|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712200201/https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/david-chomsky-obituary-philadelphia-doctor-noam-judith-20210712.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The brothers were close, although David was more easygoing, while Noam could be very competitive. They were raised Jewish, being taught [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and regularly involved with discussing the political theories of [[Zionism]]; the family was particularly influenced by the [[Left Zionist]] writings of [[Ahad Ha'am]].{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=11–13}} He faced [[antisemitism]] as a child, particularly from Philadelphia's Irish and German communities.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=15}}

Chomsky attended the independent, [[Deweyite]] [[Oak Lane Country Day School]]{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xv|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=15–17|3a1=Sperlich|3y=2006|3p=12|4a1=McGilvray|4y=2014|4p=3}} and Philadelphia's [[Central High School (Philadelphia)|Central High School]], where he excelled academically and joined various clubs and societies, but was troubled by the school's hierarchical and domineering teaching methods.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xv|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=21–22|3a1=Sperlich|3y=2006|3p=14|4a1=McGilvray|4y=2014|4p=4}} He also attended Hebrew High School at Gratz College, where his father taught.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xv|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=15–17}}

Chomsky has described his parents as "normal [[Roosevelt Democrats]]" with [[center-left politics]], but relatives involved in the [[International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union]] exposed him to [[socialism]] and [[far-left politics]].{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=14|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2pp=11, 14–15}} He was substantially influenced by his uncle and the Jewish leftists who frequented his New York City newspaper stand to debate current affairs.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=23|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2pp=12, 14–15, 67|3a1=McGilvray|3y=2014|3p=4}} Chomsky himself often visited left-wing and anarchist bookstores when visiting his uncle in the city, voraciously reading political literature.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=23}} He became absorbed in the story of the 1939 [[fall of Barcelona]] and suppression of the [[anarchism in Spain|Spanish anarchosyndicalist]] movement, writing his first article on the topic at the age of 10.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=16–19|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=13}} That he came to identify with anarchism first rather than another leftist movement, he described as a "lucky accident".{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=18}} Chomsky was firmly [[Anti-Stalinist left|anti-Bolshevik]] by his early teens.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=18}}

===University: 1945–1955===
In 1945, at the age of 16, Chomsky began a general program of study at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], where he explored philosophy, logic, and languages and developed a primary interest in learning [[Arabic]].{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=47|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=16}} Living at home, he funded his undergraduate degree by teaching Hebrew.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=47}} Frustrated with his experiences at the university, he considered dropping out and moving to a [[kibbutz]] in [[Mandatory Palestine]],{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=17}} but his intellectual curiosity was reawakened through conversations with the linguist [[Zellig Harris]], whom he first met in a political circle in 1947. Harris introduced Chomsky to the field of theoretical linguistics and convinced him to major in the subject.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=48–51|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2pp=18–19, 31}} Chomsky's [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] honors thesis, "Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew", applied Harris's methods to the language.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=51–52|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=32}} Chomsky revised this thesis for his [[Master of Arts|MA]], which he received from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951; it was subsequently published as a book.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=51–52|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=33}} He also developed his interest in philosophy while at university, in particular under the tutelage of [[Nelson Goodman]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=33}}

From 1951 to 1955, Chomsky was a member of the [[Society of Fellows]] at [[Harvard University]], where he undertook research on what became his doctoral dissertation.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xv|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2p=79|3a1=Sperlich|3y=2006|3p=20}} Having been encouraged by Goodman to apply,{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=34}} Chomsky was attracted to Harvard in part because the philosopher [[Willard Van Orman Quine]] was based there. Both Quine and a visiting philosopher, [[J. L. Austin]] of the [[University of Oxford]], strongly influenced Chomsky.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|pp=33–34}} In 1952, Chomsky published his first academic article in ''[[The Journal of Symbolic Logic]]''.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=34}} Highly critical of the established [[behaviorist]] currents in linguistics, in 1954, he presented his ideas at lectures at the [[University of Chicago]] and [[Yale University]].{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=81}} He had not been registered as a student at Pennsylvania for four years, but in 1955 he submitted a thesis setting out his ideas on [[transformational grammar]]; he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree for it, and it was privately distributed among specialists on microfilm before being published in 1975 as part of ''[[The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory]]''.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=83–85|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=36|3a1=McGilvray|3y=2014|3pp=4–5}} Harvard professor [[George Armitage Miller]] was impressed by Chomsky's thesis and collaborated with him on several technical papers in [[mathematical linguistics]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=38}} Chomsky's doctorate exempted him from [[conscription in the United States|compulsory military service]], which was otherwise due to begin in 1955.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=36}}

In 1947, Chomsky began a romantic relationship with [[Carol Doris Schatz]], whom he had known since early childhood. They married in 1949.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=13, 48, 51–52|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2pp=18–19}} After Chomsky was made a Fellow at Harvard, the couple moved to the [[Allston]] area of Boston and remained there until 1965, when they relocated to the suburb of [[Lexington, Massachusetts|Lexington]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=20}} The couple took a Harvard travel grant to Europe in 1953.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|pp=20–21}} He enjoyed living in [[Hashomer Hatzair]]'s [[HaZore'a]] kibbutz while in Israel, but was appalled by his interactions with Jewish nationalism, [[anti-Arab racism]] and, within the kibbutz's leftist community, [[Stalinism]].{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=82|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2pp=20–21}} On visits to New York City, Chomsky continued to frequent the office of the Yiddish anarchist journal ''[[Fraye Arbeter Shtime]]'' and became enamored with the ideas of [[Rudolf Rocker]], a contributor whose work introduced Chomsky to the link between [[anarchism]] and [[classical liberalism]].{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=24|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=13}} Chomsky also read other political thinkers: the anarchists [[Mikhail Bakunin]] and [[Diego Abad de Santillán]], democratic socialists [[George Orwell]], [[Bertrand Russell]], and [[Dwight Macdonald]], and works by Marxists [[Karl Liebknecht]], [[Karl Korsch]], and [[Rosa Luxemburg]].{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=24–25}} His politics were reaffirmed by Orwell's depiction of [[Barcelona]]'s functioning anarchist society in ''[[Homage to Catalonia]]'' (1938).{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=26}} Chomsky read the leftist journal ''[[Politics (1940s magazine)|Politics]]'', which furthered his interest in anarchism,{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=34–35}} and the [[council communist]] periodical ''[[International Council Correspondence|Living Marxism]]'', though he rejected the Marxist orthodoxy of its editor, [[Paul Mattick]].{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=36}}

===Early career: 1955–1966===
Chomsky befriended two linguists at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT)—[[Morris Halle]] and [[Roman Jakobson]]—the latter of whom secured him an assistant professor position there in 1955. At MIT, Chomsky spent half his time on a [[mechanical translation]] project and half teaching a course on linguistics and philosophy.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xv|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=86–87|3a1=Sperlich|3y=2006|3pp=38–40}} He described MIT as open to experimentation where he was free to pursue his idiosyncratic interests.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=87}} MIT promoted him to the position of [[associate professor]] in 1957, and over the next year he was also a visiting professor at [[Columbia University]].{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xvi|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2p=91}} The Chomskys had their first child, [[Aviva Chomsky|Aviva]], that same year.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=91|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=22}} He also published his first book on linguistics, ''[[Syntactic Structures]]'', a work that radically opposed the dominant Harris–[[Leonard Bloomfield|Bloomfield]] trend in the field.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=88–91|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=40|3a1=McGilvray|3y=2014|3p=5|4a1=Chomsky|4y=2022}} Responses to Chomsky's ideas ranged from indifference to hostility, and his work proved divisive and caused "significant upheaval" in the discipline.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=88–91}} The linguist [[John Lyons (linguist)|John Lyons]] later asserted that ''Syntactic Structures'' "revolutionized the scientific study of language".{{sfn|Lyons|1978|p=1}} From 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was a [[National Science Foundation]] fellow at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey]].{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xvi|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2p=84}}

[[File:MIT Building 10 and the Great Dome, Cambridge MA.jpg|thumb|The [[Great Dome (MIT)|Great Dome]] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Chomsky began working at MIT in 1955.]]
[[File:Portrait of Noam Chomsky used in the April 1961 issue of The Technology Review (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Portrait of Chomsky, {{circa|1961}}]]

Chomsky's provocative critique of [[B. F. Skinner]], who viewed language as entirely learned behavior, and that critique's challenge to the dominant behaviorist paradigm thrust Chomsky into the limelight. Chomsky argued that behaviorism underplayed the role of human creativity in learning language and overplayed the role of external conditions in influencing verbal behavior.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=6|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=96–99|3a1=Sperlich|3y=2006|3p=41|4a1=McGilvray|4y=2014|4p=5|5a1=MacCorquodale|5y=1970|5pp=83–99}}<!-- are all of these necessary? Barsky alone seems sufficient --> He proceeded to found MIT's graduate program in linguistics with Halle. In 1961, Chomsky [[received tenure]] and became a [[full professor]] in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=101–102, 119|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=23}} He was appointed plenary speaker at the Ninth [[International Congress of Linguists]], held in 1962 in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], which established him as the ''de facto'' spokesperson of American linguistics.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=102}} Between 1963 and 1965 he consulted on a military-sponsored project to teach computers to understand natural English commands from military generals.{{sfn|Knight|2018a}}

Chomsky continued to publish his linguistic ideas throughout the decade, including in ''[[Aspects of the Theory of Syntax]]'' (1965), ''Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar'' (1966), and ''[[Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought]]'' (1966).{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=103}} Along with Halle, he also edited the ''[[Studies in Language]]'' series of books for [[Harper and Row]].{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=104}} As he began to accrue significant academic recognition and honors for his work, Chomsky lectured at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], in 1966.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xvi|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2p=120}} These lectures were published as ''[[Language and Mind]]'' in 1968.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=122}} In the late 1960s, a high-profile intellectual rift later known as the [[linguistic wars]] developed between Chomsky and some of his colleagues and doctoral students—including [[Paul Postal]], [[John R. Ross|John Ross]], [[George Lakoff]], and [[James D. McCawley]]—who contended that Chomsky's syntax-based, interpretivist linguistics did not properly account for semantic context ([[general semantics]]). A post hoc assessment of this period concluded that the opposing programs ultimately were complementary, each informing the other.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=149–152}}

===Anti-war activism and dissent: 1967–1975===
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Chomsky joined [[protests against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War]] in 1962, speaking on the subject at small gatherings in churches and homes.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=78}} His 1967 critique of U.S. involvement, "[[The Responsibility of Intellectuals]]", among other contributions to ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', debuted Chomsky as a public dissident.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=120, 122|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=83}} This essay and other political articles were collected and published in 1969 as part of Chomsky's first political book, ''[[American Power and the New Mandarins]]''.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=xvii|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2p=123|3a1=Sperlich|3y=2006|3p=83}} He followed this with further political books, including ''At War with Asia'' (1970), ''The Backroom Boys'' (1973), ''[[For Reasons of State]]'' (1973), and ''Peace in the Middle East?'' (1974), published by [[Pantheon Books]].{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1pp=xvi–xvii|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2p=163|3a1=Sperlich|3y=2006|3p=87}} These publications led to Chomsky's association with the American [[New Left]] movement,{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=5|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2p=123}} though he thought little of prominent New Left intellectuals [[Herbert Marcuse]] and [[Erich Fromm]] and preferred the company of activists to that of intellectuals.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=134–135}} Chomsky remained largely ignored by the mainstream press throughout this period.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=162–163}}

[[File:Portrait photograph of Noam Chomsky by W. U. S. van Lessen Kloeke, c. 1969.jpg|thumb|upright|Portrait of Noam Chomsky, {{circa|1969}}]]
Chomsky also became involved in left-wing activism. Chomsky refused to pay half his taxes, publicly supported students who [[Vietnam War draft evaders|refused the draft]], and was arrested while participating in an [[Anti-war movement|anti-war]] [[teach-in]] outside the Pentagon.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=5|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=127–129}} During this time, Chomsky co-founded the anti-war collective [[RESIST (non-profit)|RESIST]] with [[Hans Koning]], [[Mitchell Goodman]], [[Denise Levertov]], [[William Sloane Coffin]], and [[Dwight Macdonald]].{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=5|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=127–129|3a1=Sperlich|3y=2006|3pp=80–81}} Although he questioned the objectives of the [[1968 student protests]],{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=121–122, 131}} Chomsky regularly gave lectures to student activist groups and, with his colleague [[Louis Kampf]], ran undergraduate courses on politics at MIT independently of the conservative-dominated [[political science]] department.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=121|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=78}} When student activists campaigned to stop weapons and counterinsurgency research at MIT, Chomsky was sympathetic but felt that the research should remain under MIT's oversight and limited to systems of deterrence and defense.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=121–122, 140–141|2a1=Albert|2y=2006|2p=98|3a1=Knight|3y=2016|3p=34}} Chomsky has acknowledged that his MIT lab's funding at this time came from the military.{{sfn|Chomsky|1996|p=102}} He later said he considered resigning from MIT during the Vietnam War.{{sfn|Allott|Knight|Smith|2019|p=62}} There has since been a wide-ranging debate about what effects Chomsky's employment at MIT had on his political and linguistic ideas.{{sfnm|1a1=Hutton|1y=2020|1p=32|2a1=Harris|2y=2021|2pp=399–400, 426, 454}}

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Chomsky's anti-war activism led to his arrest on multiple occasions and he was on President [[Richard Nixon's master list of political opponents]].{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=124|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=80}} Chomsky was aware of the potential repercussions of his civil disobedience, and his wife began studying for her own doctorate in linguistics to support the family in the event of Chomsky's imprisonment or joblessness.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=123–124|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=22}} Chomsky's scientific reputation insulated him from administrative action based on his beliefs.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=143}} In 1970 he visited southeast Asia to lecture at Vietnam's [[Hanoi University of Science and Technology]] and toured war refugee camps in [[Laos]]. In 1973 he helped lead a committee commemorating the 50th anniversary of the [[War Resisters League]].{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=153|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2pp=24–25, 84–85}}

Chomsky's work in linguistics continued to gain international recognition as he [[List of honorary degrees awarded to Noam Chomsky|received multiple honorary doctorates]].{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1pp=xv–xvi|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=120, 143}} He delivered [[public lectures]] at the [[University of Cambridge]], [[Columbia University]] ([[Woodbridge Lectures]]), and [[Stanford University]].{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=156}} His appearance in a [[Chomsky–Foucault debate|1971 debate]] with French [[continental philosopher]] [[Michel Foucault]] positioned Chomsky as a symbolic figurehead of [[analytic philosophy]].{{sfn|Greif|2015|pp=312–313}} He continued to publish extensively on linguistics, producing ''Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar'' (1972),{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=143}} an enlarged edition of ''[[Language and Mind]]'' (1972),{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=51}} and ''[[Reflections on Language]]'' (1975).{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=51}} In 1974 Chomsky became a [[corresponding fellow of the British Academy]].{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=156}}

===Edward S. Herman and the Faurisson affair: 1976–1980===
{{See also|Cambodian genocide denial#Chomsky and Herman|Faurisson affair}}
[[File:Prof dr Noam Chomsky, Bestanddeelnr 929-4752 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Chomsky in 1977]]
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Chomsky's linguistic publications expanded and clarified his earlier work, addressing his critics and updating his grammatical theory.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=175}} His political talks often generated considerable controversy, particularly when he criticized the Israeli government and military.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=167, 170}} In the early 1970s Chomsky began collaborating with [[Edward S. Herman]], who had also published critiques of the U.S. war in Vietnam.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=157}} Together they wrote ''[[Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda]]'', a book that criticized U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia and the mainstream media's failure to cover it. Warner Modular published it in 1973, but [[Warner Communications|its parent company]] disapproved of the book's contents and ordered all copies destroyed.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=160–162|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=86}}

While mainstream publishing options proved elusive, Chomsky found support from [[Michael Albert]]'s [[South End Press]], an activist-oriented publishing company.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=85}} In 1979, South End published Chomsky and Herman's revised ''Counter-Revolutionary Violence'' as the two-volume ''[[The Political Economy of Human Rights]]'',{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=187|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=86}} which compares U.S. media reactions to the [[Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia|Cambodian genocide]] and the [[Indonesian occupation of East Timor]]. It argues that because Indonesia was a U.S. ally, U.S. media ignored the East Timorese situation while focusing on events in Cambodia, a U.S. enemy.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=187}} Chomsky's response included two testimonials before the United Nations' [[Special Committee on Decolonization]], successful encouragement for American media to cover the occupation, and meetings with refugees in [[Lisbon]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=103}} Marxist academic [[Steven Lukes]] most prominently publicly accused Chomsky of betraying his anarchist ideals and acting as an apologist for Cambodian leader [[Pol Pot]].{{sfn|Barsky|2007|p=98}} Herman said that the controversy "imposed a serious personal cost" on Chomsky,{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=187–189}} who considered the personal criticism less important than the evidence that "mainstream intelligentsia suppressed or justified the crimes of their own states".{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=190}}

Chomsky had long publicly criticized [[Nazism]], and [[totalitarianism]] more generally, but his commitment to freedom of speech led him to defend the right of French historian [[Robert Faurisson]] to advocate a position widely characterized as [[Holocaust denial]]. Without Chomsky's knowledge, his plea for Faurisson's freedom of speech was published as the preface to the latter's 1980 book {{lang|fr|Mémoire en défense contre ceux qui m'accusent de falsifier l'histoire}}.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=179–180|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=61}} Chomsky was widely condemned for defending Faurisson,{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=185|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=61}} and France's mainstream press accused Chomsky of being a Holocaust denier himself, refusing to publish his rebuttals to their accusations.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=184}} Critiquing Chomsky's position, sociologist [[Werner Cohn]] later published an analysis of the affair titled ''Partners in Hate: Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers''.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=78}} The Faurisson affair had a lasting, damaging effect on Chomsky's career,{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=185}} especially in France.{{sfnm|Birnbaum|2010|Aeschimann|2010}}

=== Critique of propaganda and international affairs ===
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In 1985, during the [[Nicaraguan Contra War]]—in which the U.S. supported the [[Contras|contra militia]] against the [[Sandinista]] government—Chomsky traveled to [[Managua]] to meet with workers' organizations and refugees of the conflict, giving public lectures on politics and linguistics.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|pp=91, 92}} Many of these lectures were published in 1987 as ''On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures''.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=91}} In 1983 he published ''[[The Fateful Triangle]]'', which argued that the U.S. had continually used the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]] for its own ends.{{sfnm|1a1=Sperlich|1y=2006|1p=99|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2p=13}} In 1988, Chomsky visited the [[Palestinian territories]] to witness the impact of Israeli occupation.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=98}}

Chomsky and Herman's ''[[Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media]]'' (1988) outlines their [[propaganda model]] for understanding mainstream media. Even in countries without official censorship, they argued, the news is censored through five filters that greatly influence both what and how news is presented.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=160, 202|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2pp=127–134}} The book received [[Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media|a 1992 film adaptation]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=136}} In 1989, Chomsky published ''Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies,'' in which he suggests that a worthwhile democracy requires that its citizens undertake intellectual self-defense against the media and elite intellectual culture that seeks to control them.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|pp=138–139}} By the 1980s, Chomsky's students had become prominent linguists who, in turn, expanded and revised his linguistic theories.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=53}}

[[File:Noam Chomsky Toronto 2011.jpg|thumb|left|Chomsky speaking in support of the [[Occupy movement]] in 2011]]

In the 1990s, Chomsky embraced political activism to a greater degree than before.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=214}} Retaining his commitment to the cause of East Timorese independence, in 1995 he visited Australia to talk on the issue at the behest of the East Timorese Relief Association and the National Council for East Timorese Resistance.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=104}} The lectures he gave on the subject were published as ''Powers and Prospects'' in 1996.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=104}} As a result of the international publicity Chomsky generated, his biographer Wolfgang Sperlich opined that he did more to aid the cause of East Timorese independence than anyone but the investigative journalist [[John Pilger]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=107}} After East Timor attained independence from Indonesia in 1999, the Australian-led [[International Force for East Timor]] arrived as a peacekeeping force; Chomsky was critical of this, believing it was designed to secure Australian access to East Timor's oil and gas reserves under the [[Timor Gap Treaty]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|pp=109–110}}

Chomsky was widely interviewed after the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001 as the American public attempted to make sense of the attacks.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|pp=110–111}} He argued that the ensuing [[war on terror]] was not a new development but a continuation of U.S. foreign policy and concomitant rhetoric since at least the Reagan era.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=143}} He gave the [[D.T. Lakdawala]] Memorial Lecture in New Delhi in 2001,{{sfn|''The Hindu''|2001}} and in 2003 visited Cuba at the invitation of the Latin American Association of Social Scientists.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=120}} Chomsky's 2003 ''[[Hegemony or Survival]]'' articulated what he called the United States' "imperial [[grand strategy]]" and critiqued the [[Iraq War]] and other aspects of the war on terror.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|pp=114–118}} Chomsky toured internationally with greater regularity during this period.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=120}}

=== Retirement ===

Chomsky retired from MIT in 2002,{{sfn|Weidenfeld|2017}} but continued to conduct research and seminars on campus as an [[:wikt:emeritus|emeritus]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=10}} That same year he visited Turkey to attend the trial of a publisher who had been accused of treason for printing one of Chomsky's books; Chomsky insisted on being a [[co-defendant]] and amid international media attention, the [[State Security Courts (Turkey)|Security Courts]] dropped the charge on the first day.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=25}} During that trip Chomsky visited Kurdish areas of Turkey and spoke out in favor of the Kurds' human rights.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=25}} A supporter of the [[World Social Forum]], he attended its conferences in Brazil in both 2002 and 2003, also attending the Forum event in India.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|pp=112–113, 120}}

[[File:Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism - In Conversation with Noam Chomsky - March 28, 2014.webm|thumb|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 conflict|class war]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Feffer |first1=John |title=Review: Noam Chomsky's 'Occupy' |work=Foreign Policy In Focus |date=April 6, 2012 |url=https://fpif.org/review_noam_chomskys_occupy/ |language=en-US |access-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417033628/https://fpif.org/review_noam_chomskys_occupy/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 2015 documentary ''[[Requiem for the American Dream]]'' summarizes his views on capitalism and [[economic inequality]] through a "75-minute [[teach-in]]".{{sfn|Gold|2016}}

In 2015, Chomsky and his wife purchased a residence in [[São Paulo]], Brazil, and began splitting their time between Brazil and the U.S.<ref name="2024 stroke">{{cite web |title=Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky hospitalized in his wife's native country of Brazil after stroke |url=https://apnews.com/article/noam-chomsky-hospitalized-stroke-recovery-brazil-4fb6782abf6a7b6d0bbb30cefa05cede |website=[[Associated Press]]|date=June 11, 2024 |access-date=June 19, 2024}}</ref> Chomsky taught a short-term politics course at the [[University of Arizona]] in 2017.{{sfn|Harwood|2016}} He was later hired as the Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice, a part-time professorship in the linguistics department with duties including teaching and public seminars.{{sfn|Ortiz|2017}} His salary was covered by philanthropic donations.{{sfn|Mace|2017}} After a stroke in June 2023, Chomsky moved to Brazil full-time.{{r|2024 stroke}}

==Linguistic theory==

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The basis of Chomsky's linguistic theory lies in [[biolinguistics]], the linguistic school that holds that the principles underpinning the structure of language are biologically preset in the human mind and hence genetically inherited.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=4|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2pp=2–3}} He argues that all humans share the same underlying linguistic structure, irrespective of sociocultural differences.{{sfn|Lyons|1978|p=7}} In adopting this position Chomsky rejects the [[radical behaviorism|radical behaviorist]] psychology of [[B.&nbsp;F. Skinner]], who viewed speech, thought, and all behavior as a completely learned product of the interactions between organisms and their environments. Accordingly, Chomsky argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species.{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1p=6|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2pp=2–3}}{{sfn|Brain From Top To Bottom}} Chomsky argues that his [[Psychological nativism|nativist]], internalist view of language is consistent with the philosophical school of "[[rationalism]]" and contrasts with the anti-nativist, externalist view of language consistent with the philosophical school of "[[empiricism]]",{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=11}} which contends that all knowledge, including language, comes from external stimuli.{{sfn|Baughman et al.|2006}} Historians have disputed Chomsky's claim about rationalism on the basis that his theory of innate grammar excludes [[propositional knowledge]] and instead focuses on innate learning capacities or structures.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Rationalism vs. Empiricism |encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Stanford University |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism |access-date=October 11, 2023 |last=Markie |first=Peter |date=2017 |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |issn=1095-5054 |archive-date=November 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122203336/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Universal grammar===
{{Main|Universal grammar}}

Since the 1960s, Chomsky has maintained that syntactic knowledge is partially inborn, implying that children need only learn certain language-specific features of their [[native language]]s. He bases his argument on observations about human [[language acquisition]] and describes a "[[poverty of the stimulus]]": an enormous gap between the linguistic stimuli to which children are exposed and the rich [[linguistic competence]] they attain. For example, although children are exposed to only a very small and finite subset of the allowable [[Sentence (linguistics)|syntactic variants]] within their first language, they somehow acquire the highly organized and systematic ability to understand and produce [[Digital infinity|an infinite number of sentences]], including ones that have never before been uttered, in that language.{{sfn|Dovey|2015}} To explain this, Chomsky proposed that the primary linguistic data must be supplemented by an [[innate linguistic capacity]]. Furthermore, while a human baby and a kitten are both capable of [[inductive reasoning]], if they are exposed to exactly the same linguistic data, the human will always acquire the ability to understand and produce language, while the kitten will never acquire either ability. Chomsky referred to this difference in capacity as the [[language acquisition device]], and suggested that linguists needed to determine both what that device is and what constraints it imposes on the range of possible human languages. The universal features that result from these constraints would constitute "universal grammar".{{sfn|Chomsky}}{{sfn|Thornbury|2006|p=234}}{{sfn|O'Grady|2015}} Multiple researchers have challenged universal grammar on the grounds of the evolutionary infeasibility of its genetic basis for language,{{sfnm| 1a1=Christiansen|1a2=Chater|1y=2010|1p=489| 2a1=Ruiter|2a2=Levinson|2y=2010|2p=518}} the lack of crosslinguistic surface universals,{{sfnm| 1a1=Evans|1a2=Levinson|1y=2009|1p=429| Tomasello|2009|2p=470}} and the unproven link between innate/universal structures and the structures of specific languages.{{sfn|Tomasello|2003|p=284}} [[Michael Tomasello]] has challenged Chomsky's theory of innate syntactic knowledge as based on theory and not behavioral observation.{{sfn|Tomasello|1995|p=131}} The empirical basis of poverty of the stimulus arguments has been challenged by [[Geoffrey Pullum]] and others, leading to back-and-forth debate in the [[language acquisition]] literature.<ref name="PullumScholz">{{cite journal|last1=Pullum|first1=Geoff|author-link1=Geoff Pullum|last2=Scholz|first2=Barbara|author-link2=Barbara Scholz|date=2002|title=Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments|journal=The Linguistic Review|volume=18|issue=1–2|pages=9–50|doi=10.1515/tlir.19.1-2.9}}</ref><ref name="LegateYang">{{cite journal|last1=Legate|first1=Julie Anne|author-link1=Julie Anne Legate|last2=Yang|first2=Charles|author-link2=Charles Yang (linguist)|date=2002|title=Empirical re-assessment of stimulus poverty arguments|journal=The Linguistic Review|volume=18|issue=1–2|pages=151–162|doi=10.1515/tlir.19.1-2.9|url=https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/papers/tlr-final.pdf}}</ref> Recent work has also suggested that some [[recurrent neural network]] architectures can learn hierarchical structure without an explicit constraint.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=McCoy|first1=R. Thomas|last2=Frank|first2=Robert|last3=Linzen|first3=Tal|year=2018 |title=Revisiting the poverty of the stimulus: hierarchical generalization without a hierarchical bias in recurrent neural networks|journal=Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society|pages=2093–2098|arxiv=1802.09091 |url=https://tallinzen.net/media/papers/mccoy_frank_linzen_2018_cogsci.pdf}}</ref>

===Generative grammar===
{{Main|Generative grammar|Transformational grammar|Chomsky hierarchy|Minimalist program}}

Chomsky is generally credited with launching the research tradition of [[generative grammar]], which aims to explain the [[cognition|cognitive]] basis of language by formulating and testing explicit models of humans' subconscious grammatical knowledge. Generative grammar proposes models of language consisting of explicit rule systems, which make testable [[falsifiability|falsifiable]] predictions. The goal of generative grammar is sometimes described as answering the question "What is that that you know when you know a language?"<ref name ="WasowHandbookUmbrella">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Generative Grammar |encyclopedia=The Handbook of Linguistics|year=2003|last=Wasow|first=Thomas|author-link=Tom Wasow|editor-last1=Aronoff|editor-first1=Mark|editor-last2=Ress-Miller|editor-first2=Janie|publisher= Blackwell|url=https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/WWW_Content/9780631204978/12.pdf|doi=10.1002/9780470756409.ch12|pages=296,311|isbn=978-0-631-20497-8 |quote="...generative grammar is not so much a theory as a family or theories, or a school of thought... [having] shared assumptions and goals, widely used formal devices, and generally accepted empirical results"}}</ref><ref name=carnie_p5>{{Cite book |last=Carnie|first=Andrew|title=Syntax: A Generative Introduction|author-link=Andrew Carnie|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2002|isbn=978-0-631-22543-0|page=5}}</ref>

Within generative grammar, Chomsky's initial model was called [[transformational grammar]]. Chomsky developed transformational grammar in the mid-1950s, whereupon it became the dominant syntactic theory in linguistics for two decades.{{sfn|Harlow|2010|p=752}} "Transformations" are syntactic rules that derive [[deep structures and surface structures|''surface structure'']] from ''deep structure'', which was often considered to reflect the structure of meaning.{{sfn|Baughman et al.|2006}} Transformational grammar later developed into the 1980s [[government and binding theory]] and thence into the [[minimalist program]].<!--{{sfn|Hornstein|2003}}-->{{Sfn|Harlow|2010|p=752}} This research focused on the [[principles and parameters]] framework, which explained children's ability to learn any language by filling open parameters (a set of universal grammar principles) that adapt as the child encounters linguistic data.{{sfn|Hornstein|2003}} The minimalist program, initiated by Chomsky,{{sfn|Szabó|2010}}<!-- see this source if more overview on Chomsky's linguistic background if needed --> asks which minimal principles and parameters theory fits most elegantly, naturally, and simply.{{sfn|Hornstein|2003}}

[[File:Chomsky-hierarchy.svg|thumb|alt=A set of 4 ovals inside one another, each resting at the bottom of the one larger than itself. There is a term in each oval; from smallest to largest: regular, context-free, context-sensitive, recursively enumerable.|Set inclusions described by the [[Chomsky hierarchy]]]]
Chomsky is commonly credited with inventing transformational-generative grammar, but his original contribution was considered modest when he first published his theory. In his 1955 dissertation and his 1957 textbook ''[[Syntactic Structures]]'', he presented recent developments in the analysis formulated by [[Zellig Harris]], who was Chomsky's PhD supervisor, and by [[Charles F. Hockett]].{{efn|name=input|
* {{harvnb|Smith|2004|pp=107}} "Chomsky's early work was renowned for its mathematical rigor and he made some contribution to the nascent discipline of mathematical linguistics, in particular the analysis of (formal) languages in terms of what is now known as the ''Chomsky hierarchy.''"
* {{harvnb|Koerner|1983|pp=159}}: "Characteristically, Harris proposes a transfer of sentences from English to Modern Hebrew{{nbsp}}... Chomsky's approach to syntax in ''Syntactic Structures'' and several years thereafter was not much different from Harris's approach, since the concept of 'deep' or 'underlying structure' had not yet been introduced. The main difference between Harris (1954) and Chomsky (1957) appears to be that the latter is dealing with transfers within one single language only"}} Their method derives from the work of the structural linguist [[Louis Hjelmslev]], who introduced [[Formal grammar|algorithmic grammar]] to general linguistics.{{efn|name=origin|
* {{harvnb|Koerner|1978|pp=41f}}: "it is worth noting that Chomsky cites Hjelmslev's ''Prolegomena'', which had been translated into English in 1953, since the authors' theoretical argument, derived largely from logic and mathematics, exhibits noticeable similarities."
* {{harvnb|Seuren|1998|pp=166}}: "Both Hjelmslev and Harris were inspired by the mathematical notion of an algorithm as a purely formal production system for a set of strings of symbols.{{nbsp}}... it is probably accurate to say that Hjelmslev was the first to try and apply it to the generation of strings of symbols in natural language"
* {{harvnb|Hjelmslev|1969}} ''Prolegomena to a Theory of Language''. Danish original 1943; first English translation 1954.}} Based on this rule-based notation of grammars, <!--needed?{{sfn|Morris|2013|p=189}} --> Chomsky grouped logically possible phrase-structure grammar types into a series of four nested subsets and increasingly complex types, together known as the [[Chomsky hierarchy]]. This classification remains relevant to [[formal language theory]]{{sfn|Butterfield|Ngondi|Kerr|2016}}<!--is the following needed? It imposes a logical structure across different language classes and provides a basis for understanding the relationship between grammars.--> and [[theoretical computer science]], especially [[programming language theory]],{{sfn|Knuth|2002}} [[compiler]] construction, and [[automata theory]].{{sfn|Davis|Weyuker|Sigal|1994|p=327}} Chomsky's ''Syntactic Structures'' became, beyond generative linguistics as such, a catalyst for connecting what in [[Louis Hjelmslev|Hjelmslev]]'s and [[Otto Jespersen|Jespersen]]'s time was the beginnings of [[structural linguistics]], which has become [[cognitive linguistics]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bierwisch |first=Manfred |date=2019 |title=Strukturelle Grammatik, semantische Universalien und Arbitrarität – Ein Gespräch mit Manfred Bierwisch |url=http://www.gespraech-manfred-bierwisch.de/ |access-date=September 3, 2024 |website=www.gespraech-manfred-bierwisch.de |at=Section 3, starting at 31 min.}}</ref>

==Political views==
{{Main|Political positions of Noam Chomsky}}

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Chomsky is a prominent political dissident.{{efn|name=dissident}} His political views have changed little since his childhood,{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=95|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2p=4}} when he was influenced by the emphasis on political activism that was ingrained in Jewish working-class tradition.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=77}} He usually identifies as an [[anarcho-syndicalist]] or a [[libertarian socialist]].{{sfnm|1a1=Sperlich|1y=2006|1p=14|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2pp=17, 158}} He views these positions not as precise political theories but as ideals that he thinks best meet human needs: liberty, community, and freedom of association.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=17}} Unlike some other socialists, such as Marxists, Chomsky believes that politics lies outside the remit of science,{{sfnm|1a1=Sperlich|1y=2006|1p=74|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2p=16}} but he still roots his ideas about an ideal society in empirical data and empirically justified theories.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=222}}

In Chomsky's view, the truth about political realities is systematically distorted or suppressed by an elite [[corporatocracy]], which uses corporate media, advertising, and [[think tanks]] to promote its own propaganda. His work seeks to reveal such manipulations and the truth they obscure.{{sfnm|1a1=Sperlich|1y=2006|1p=8|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2p=158}} Chomsky believes this web of falsehood can be broken by "common sense", critical thinking, and understanding the roles of self-interest and self-deception,{{sfnm|1a1=Sperlich|1y=2006|1p=74|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2pp=12–13}} and that intellectuals abdicate their moral responsibility to tell the truth about the world in fear of losing prestige and funding.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=159}} He argues that, as such an intellectual, it is his duty to use his [[social privilege]], resources, and training to aid popular democracy movements in their struggles.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=161}}

Although he has participated in [[direct action]] demonstrations—joining protests, being arrested, organizing groups—Chomsky's primary political outlet is education, i.e., free public lessons.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=71}} Chomsky is a longtime member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Socialism seeps into US mainstream – DW – 01/29/2018 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/under-donald-trump-socialism-seeps-into-us-mainstream/a-42297787 |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=dw.com |language=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241204222011/https://www.dw.com/en/under-donald-trump-socialism-seeps-into-us-mainstream/a-42297787}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Globalization and Resistance: An Interview with Noam Chomsky |url=https://www.angelfire.com/il/wvrights/gar.html |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=[[Angelfire]] |url-status=live |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607061051/https://www.angelfire.com/il/wvrights/gar.html}}</ref> and a longtime member of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW) international union,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Edgley |first1=Alison |title=Noam Chomsky |date=2016 |language=en |isbn=978-1-137-32021-6 |publisher=Springer |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3oYDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |access-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212183620/https://books.google.com/books?id=s3oYDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |url-status=live }}</ref> as was his father.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |editor-last1=Goldman |editor-first1=Jan |title=Chomsky, Noam |date=2014 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjeaBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |language=en |isbn=978-1-61069-511-4 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |encyclopedia=The War on Terror Encyclopedia: From the Rise of Al-Qaeda to 9/11 and Beyond |page=87 |access-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212183619/https://books.google.com/books?id=bjeaBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===United States foreign policy===
[[File:Noam Chomsky WSF - 2003.jpg|thumb|Chomsky at the 2003 [[World Social Forum]], a convention for counter-hegemonic globalization, in [[Porto Alegre]]]]
Chomsky has been a prominent critic of [[American imperialism]],{{sfn|Milne|2009}} but is not a pacifist, believing [[World War II]] was justified as America's last defensive war.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Atkins |first1=Stephen E. |author-link=Stephen E. Atkins |title=The 9/11 Encyclopedia |date=June 2, 2011 |language=en |isbn=978-1-59884-922-6 |edition=2nd |publisher=ABC-CLIO |chapter=Chomsky, Noam |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=c06pxjS6z3AC&pg=PA108 108] }}</ref> He believes that [[foreign policy of the United States|U.S. foreign policy]]'s basic principle is the establishment of "open societies" that are economically and politically controlled by the U.S. and where U.S.-based businesses can prosper.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=92}} He argues that the U.S. seeks to suppress any movements within these countries that are not compliant with U.S. interests and to ensure that U.S.-friendly governments are placed in power.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=159}} When discussing current events, he emphasizes their place within a wider historical perspective.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=160}} He believes that official, sanctioned historical accounts of U.S. and British extraterritorial operations have consistently whitewashed these nations' actions in order to present them as having benevolent motives in either spreading democracy or, in older instances, spreading Christianity; by criticizing these accounts, he seeks to correct them.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=13}} Prominent examples he regularly cites are the actions of the British Empire in India and Africa and U.S. actions in Vietnam, the Philippines, Latin America, and the Middle East.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=13}}

Chomsky's political work has centered heavily on criticizing the actions of the United States.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=160}} He has said he focuses on the U.S. because the country has militarily and economically dominated the world during his lifetime and because its [[liberal democracy|liberal democratic]] electoral system allows the citizenry to influence government policy.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|pp=14, 160}} His hope is that, by spreading awareness of the impact U.S. foreign policies have on the populations affected by them, he can sway the populations of the U.S. and other countries into opposing the policies.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=13}} He urges people to criticize their governments' motivations, decisions, and actions, to accept responsibility for their own thoughts and actions, and to apply the same standards to others as to themselves.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=18}}

Chomsky has been critical of U.S. involvement in the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]], arguing that it has consistently blocked a peaceful settlement.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=159}} He also criticizes the U.S.'s close ties with Saudi Arabia and involvement in [[Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen]], highlighting that Saudi Arabia has "one of the most grotesque human rights records in the world".{{sfn|''Democracy Now!''|2016}}

Chomsky called the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian invasion of Ukraine]] a criminal act of aggression and noted that [[War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russia was committing major war crimes]] in the country. He considered support for Ukraine's self-defense legitimate and said Ukraine should be given enough military aid to defend itself, but not enough to cause "an escalation".<ref name=scahill>{{cite news |date=April 14, 2022 |title=Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War, the Media, Propaganda, and Accountability |work=The Intercept |url=https://theintercept.com/2022/04/14/russia-ukraine-noam-chomsky-jeremy-scahill/ |access-date=June 4, 2022 |archive-date=June 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604093657/https://theintercept.com/2022/04/14/russia-ukraine-noam-chomsky-jeremy-scahill/ |url-status=live }}</ref> His criticism of the war focused on the United States.<ref name=scahill/> He alleged that the U.S. rejected any compromise with Russia and that this might have provoked the invasion.<ref name=scahill/> According to Chomsky, the U.S. was arming Ukraine only to weaken Russia, and Ukrainian requests for heavy weaponry were untrue "Western propaganda", despite Ukraine's President [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] repeatedly asking for them.<ref>{{cite news |title=Noam Chomsky Says Ukraine Desire for Heavy Weapons Is 'Western Propaganda' |url=https://www.newsweek.com/noam-chomsky-says-ukraine-desire-heavy-weapons-western-propaganda-1706473 |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=May 13, 2022}}</ref> More than a year into the invasion, Chomsky argued that Russia was waging the war "more humanely" than the U.S. did the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invasion of Iraq]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vock |first1=Ido |title=Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2023/04/noam-chomsky-interview-ukraine-free-actor-united-states-determines |website=[[The New Statesman]] |date=April 29, 2023 |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610182617/https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2023/04/noam-chomsky-interview-ukraine-free-actor-united-states-determines |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Capitalism and socialism===
{{Anarchism US|people}}
In his youth, Chomsky developed a dislike of [[capitalism]] and the pursuit of material wealth.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=15}} At the same time, he developed a disdain for [[authoritarian socialism]], as represented by the [[Marxist–Leninist]] policies of the Soviet Union.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=168|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=16}} Rather than accepting the common view among U.S. economists that a spectrum exists between total state ownership of the economy and total private ownership, he instead suggests that a spectrum should be understood between total democratic control of the economy and total autocratic control (whether state or private).{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|pp=164–165}} He argues that Western capitalist countries are not really democratic,{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=169}} because, in his view, a truly democratic society is one in which all persons have a say in public economic policy.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=170}} He has stated his opposition to [[ruling elites]], among them institutions like the [[IMF]], [[World Bank]], and [[GATT]] (precursor to the [[WTO]]).{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=211}}

Chomsky highlights that, since the 1970s, [[Wealth inequality in the United States|the U.S. has become increasingly economically unequal]] as a result of the repeal of various financial regulations and the unilateral rescinding of the [[Bretton Woods financial control agreement]] by the U.S.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=14}} He characterizes the U.S. as a ''de facto'' [[one-party state]], viewing both the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] as manifestations of a single "Business Party" controlled by corporate and financial interests.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|pp=14–15}} Chomsky highlights that, within Western capitalist liberal democracies, at least 80% of the population has no control over economic decisions, which are instead in the hands of a management class and ultimately controlled by a small, wealthy elite.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=15}}

Noting the entrenchment of such an economic system, Chomsky believes that change is possible through the organized cooperation of large numbers of people who understand the problem and know how they want to reorganize the economy more equitably.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=15}} Acknowledging that corporate domination of media and government stifles any significant change to this system, he sees reason for optimism in historical examples such as the social rejection of slavery as immoral, the advances in women's rights, and the forcing of government to justify invasions.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=14}} He views violent revolution to overthrow a government as a last resort to be avoided if possible, citing the example of historical revolutions where the population's welfare has worsened as a result of upheaval.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=15}}

Chomsky sees libertarian socialist and anarcho-syndicalist ideas as the descendants of the [[classical liberal]] ideas of the [[Age of Enlightenment]],{{sfnm|1a1=Sperlich|1y=2006|1p=89|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2p=189}} arguing that his ideological position revolves around "nourishing the libertarian and creative character of the human being".{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=95}} He envisions an [[anarcho-syndicalist]] future with direct worker control of the [[means of production]] and government by [[workers' council]]s, who would select temporary and revocable representatives to meet together at general assemblies.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=199}} The point of this self-governance is to make each citizen, in [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s words, "a direct participator in the government of affairs".{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=210}} He believes that there will be no need for political parties.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=200}} By controlling their productive life, he believes that individuals can gain job satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment and purpose.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|pp=197, 202}} He argues that unpleasant and unpopular jobs could be fully automated, specially remunerated, or communally shared.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|pp=201–202}}

===Israeli–Palestinian conflict===
Chomsky has written prolifically about the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]], aiming to raise public awareness of it.{{sfn|Gendzier|2017|p=314}} A [[labor Zionist]] who later became what is today considered an [[Anti-Zionism|anti-Zionist]], Chomsky has criticized the [[Israeli settlements]] in the [[Israeli-occupied territories|Israeli-occupied]] [[West Bank]], which he likens to a [[settler colony]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4rpHEAAAQBAJ|title=A New World in Our Hearts: In Conversation with Michael Albert|author=Noam Chomsky|page=59|publisher=PM Press|year=2022|isbn=9781629638928 }}</ref> He has said that the 1947 [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] was a bad decision, but given the [[realpolitik]] of the situation, he has also considered a [[two-state solution]] on the condition that the nation-states exist on equal terms.{{sfnm|1a1=Sperlich|1y=2006|1p=97|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2p=159}}

Chomsky has said that characterizing [[Israel and apartheid|Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as apartheid]], similar to the system that existed in South Africa, would be a "gift to Israel", as he has long held that "the [[Israeli occupied territories|Occupied Territories]] are much worse than South Africa".<ref name="MEM1">{{cite web|url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220627-chomsky-on-israeli-apartheid-celebrity-activists-bds-and-the-one-state-solution/|publisher=Middle East Monitor|access-date=December 15, 2023|date=June 27, 2022|work=Ramzy Baroud|title=Chomsky on Israeli apartheid, celebrity activists, BDS and the one-state solution|quote=Chomsky believes that calling Israeli policies towards the Palestinians “apartheid” is actually a “gift to Israel”; at least, if by apartheid one refers to South African-style apartheid. “I have held for a long time that the Occupied Territories are much worse than South Africa,” the professor explained.}}</ref><ref name="Democracy Now-2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/8/noam_chomsky_what_israel_is_doing|title=Noam Chomsky: Israel's Actions in Palestine are "Much Worse Than Apartheid" in South Africa|work=Democracy Now|access-date=December 15, 2023|date=August 8, 2014}}</ref> South Africa depended on its black population for labor, but Chomsky argues the same is not true of Israel, which in his view seeks to make the situation for Palestinians under its occupation unlivable, especially in the [[West Bank]] and the [[Gaza Strip]], where "atrocities" take place every day.<ref name="MEM1"/> He also argues that, unlike South Africa, Israel has not sought the international community's approval, but rather relies solely on U.S. support.<ref name="MEM1"/> Chomsky has said that the Israeli-led [[Blockade of the Gaza Strip|blockade]] of the [[Gaza Strip]] has turned it into a "concentration camp" and expressed fears similar to Israeli intellectual [[Yeshayahu Leibowitz]]'s 1990s warning that the continued occupation of the [[Palestinian territories]] could turn [[Israeli Jews]] into "Judeo-Nazis". Chomsky has said that Leibowitz's warning "was a direct reflection of the continued occupation, the humiliation of people, the degradation, and the terrorist attacks by the Israeli government".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/188255-181108-chomsky-to-i24news-judeo-nazi-tendencies-in-israel-a-product-of-occupation|title=Chomsky to i24NEWS: 'Judeo-Nazi tendencies in Israel a product of occupation'|work=i24news|access-date=December 15, 2023|date=November 14, 2018|quote=“[[Yeshayahu Leibowitz|Leibowitz]] warned that if the occupation continues, Israeli Jews are going to turn into what he called, Judeo-Nazis. It’s a pretty strong term to use in Israel. Most people couldn’t get away with that but he did. It will happen, he argued, simply by the dynamics of occupation,” Chomsky told i24NEWS. “If you have your jackboot on somebody’s neck, you have to find a way to justify it. So you blame the victims. Leibowitz’s warning was a direct reflection of the continued occupation, the humiliation of people, the degradation, and the terrorist attacks by the Israeli government. We have many historical examples of that. Europe has plenty of them. And I think that’s what you are seeing in Israel,” he explained.}}</ref> He has also called the U.S. a violent state that exports violence by supporting Israeli "atrocities" against the Palestinians and said that listening to American mainstream media, including [[CBS]], is like listening to "Israeli propaganda agencies".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://imemc.org/article/72694/|title=Noam Chomsky: Israeli Apartheid 'Much Worse' Than South Africa|work=IMEMC|date=August 20, 2015|access-date=December 15, 2023}}</ref>

Chomsky was denied entry to the [[West Bank]] in 2010 because of [[Political positions of Noam Chomsky#Views on Israel and Palestine|his criticisms of Israel]]. He had been invited to deliver a lecture at [[Bir Zeit University]] and was to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister [[Salam Fayyad]].{{sfn|Pilkington|2010}}{{sfn|Bronner|2010}}{{sfn|Al Jazeera|2010}}{{sfn|''Democracy Now!''|2010}} An [[Israeli Foreign Ministry]] spokesman later said that Chomsky was denied entry by mistake.{{sfn|Kalman|2014}}

In his 1983 book ''The Fateful Triangle'', Chomsky criticized the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] for its "self-destructiveness" and "suicidal character" and disapproved of its programs of "armed struggle" and "erratic violence". He also criticized the Arab governments as not "decent".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Said |first1=Edward |title=Permission to narrate |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n03/edward-said/permission-to-narrate |journal=London Review of Books |access-date=January 18, 2024 |language=en |date=February 16, 1984|volume=06 |issue=3 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Said |first=Edward |date=1984 |title=Permission to Narrate |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2536688 |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=27–48 |doi=10.2307/2536688 |jstor=2536688 |issn=0377-919X}}</ref> Given what he has described as his very Jewish upbringing with deeply Zionist activist parents, Chomsky's views have drawn controversy and criticism. They are rooted in the [[kibbutz]]im and socialist binational cooperation.<ref>{{Citation |last=Rich |first=Melanie S. |chapter=10. Noam Chomsky: The Controversial Jew |title=Jews in Psychology and the Psychology of Judaism |date=December 16, 2008 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.31826/9781463214845-012/html?lang=en |pages=77–84 |access-date=December 22, 2023 |publisher=Gorgias Press |language=en |doi=10.31826/9781463214845-012 |isbn=978-1-4632-1484-5|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In a 2014 interview on ''[[Democracy Now!]]'',  Chomsky said that the charter of [[Hamas]], which calls for Israel's destruction, "means practically nothing", having been created "by a small group of people under siege, under attack in 1988". He compared it to the electoral program of the [[Likud]] party, which, he said, "states explicitly that there can never be a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. And they not only state it in their charter, that's a call for the destruction of Palestine, explicit call for it".<ref name="Democracy Now-2014" />

===Mass media and propaganda===
{{Main|Propaganda model}}

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Chomsky's political writings have largely focused on ideology, [[social and political power]], mass media, and state policy.{{sfn|Rai|1995|p=20}} One of his best-known works, ''[[Manufacturing Consent]]'', dissects the media's role in reinforcing and acquiescing to state policies across the political spectrum while marginalizing contrary perspectives. Chomsky asserts that this version of censorship, by government-guided "free market" forces, is subtler and harder to undermine than was the equivalent propaganda system in the Soviet Union.{{sfn|Rai|1995|pp=37–38}} As he argues, the mainstream press is corporate-owned and thus reflects corporate priorities and interests.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=179}} Acknowledging that many American journalists are dedicated and well-meaning, he argues that the mass media's choices of topics and issues, the unquestioned premises on which that coverage rests, and the range of opinions expressed are all constrained to reinforce the state's ideology:{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=178}} although mass media will criticize individual politicians and political parties, it will not undermine the wider state-corporate nexus of which it is a part.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=189}} As evidence, he highlights that the U.S. mass media does not employ any socialist journalists or political commentators.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=177}} He also points to examples of important news stories that the U.S. mainstream media has ignored because reporting on them would reflect badly upon the country, including the murder of Black Panther [[Fred Hampton]] with possible [[FBI]] involvement, the massacres in Nicaragua perpetrated by U.S.-funded [[Contras]], and the constant reporting on Israeli deaths without equivalent coverage of the far larger number of Palestinian deaths in that conflict.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|pp=179–182}} To remedy this situation, Chomsky calls for grassroots democratic control and involvement of the media.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=184}}

Chomsky considers most [[conspiracy theories]] fruitless, distracting substitutes for thinking about policy formation in an institutional framework, where individual manipulation is secondary to broader social imperatives.{{sfn|Rai|1995|p=70}} He separates his Propaganda Model from conspiracy in that he is describing institutions following their natural imperatives rather than collusive forces with secret controls.{{sfn|Rai|1995|p=[https://archive.org/details/chomskyspolitics00raim/page/42/mode/1up 42]}} Instead of supporting the educational system as an antidote, he believes that most education is counterproductive.{{sfn|Chomsky|1996|p=45}} Chomsky describes [[mass education]] as a system solely intended to turn farmers from independent producers into unthinking industrial employees.{{sfn|Chomsky|1996|p=45}}

=== Reactions of critics and counter-criticism: 1980s–present ===
In the 2004 book ''[[The Anti-Chomsky Reader]]'', [[Peter Collier (political author)|Peter Collier]] and [[David Horowitz]] accuse Chomsky of [[cherry picking|cherry-picking]] facts to suit his theories.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cook |first=Christopher R. |date=2009 |title=A Cold Eye Assessment of US Foreign Policy: It's the Policies, Stupid |journal=International Studies Review |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=601–608 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2486.2009.00877.x |jstor=40389146 |quote=The common critique is that he is often selective about his facts to fit his theories (Collier and Horowitz 2004).|issn=1468-2486}}</ref> Horowitz has also criticized Chomsky's [[anti-Americanism]]:<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 26, 2001 |title=The sick mind of Noam Chomsky |url=https://www.salon.com/2001/09/26/treason_2/ |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=Salon |language=en |archive-date=July 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728210540/https://www.salon.com/2001/09/26/treason_2/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=For 40 years Noam Chomsky has turned out book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet and speech after speech with one message, and one message alone: America is the [[Great Satan]]; it is the fount of evil in the world. In Chomsky's demented universe, America is responsible not only for its own bad deeds, but for the bad deeds of others, including those of the terrorists who struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In this attitude he is the medium for all those who now search the ruins of Manhattan not for the victims and the American dead, but for the "root causes" of the catastrophe that befell them.}}

For the [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] public policy [[think tank]] the [[Hoover Institution]], Peter Schweizer wrote in January 2006, "Chomsky favors the estate tax and massive income redistribution—just not the redistribution of his income." Schweizer criticized Chomsky for setting up an estate plan and protecting his own intellectual property as it relates to his published works, as well as the high speaking fees that Chomsky received on a regular basis, around $9,000–$12,000 per talk at that time.{{sfn|Schweizer|2006}}{{sfn|Lott|2006}}

Chomsky has been accused{{by whom|date=October 2025}} of treating socialist or communist regimes with credulity and examining capitalist regimes with greater scrutiny or criticism:{{sfn|Bauerlein|2005}}{{blockquote|Chomsky's analysis of U.S. actions plunged deep into dark U.S. machinations, but when traveling among the Communists he rested content with appearances. The countryside outside Hanoi, he reported in ''The New York Review of Books'', displayed "a high degree of democratic participation at the village and regional levels." But how could he tell? Chomsky did not speak Vietnamese, and so he depended on government translators, tour guides, and handlers for information. In [Communist] Vietnamese hands, the clear-eyed skepticism turned into willing credulousness.{{sfn|Bauerlein|2005}}}}According to [[Nikolas Kozloff]], writing for [[Al Jazeera English|''Al Jazeera'']] in September 2012, Chomsky "has drawn the world's attention to the various misdeeds of the US and its proxies around the world, and for that he deserves credit. Yet, in seeking to avoid controversy at all costs Chomsky has turned into something of an ideologue. Scour the Chomsky web site and you won't find significant discussion of Belarus or Latin America's flirtation with outside authoritarian leaders, for that matter."{{sfn|Kozloff|2012}}

Political activist [[George Monbiot]] has argued that "Part of the problem is that a kind of cult has developed around Noam Chomsky and [[John Pilger]], which cannot believe they could ever be wrong, and produces ever more elaborate conspiracy theories to justify their mistakes."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Katerji |first=Oz |date=November 24, 2017 |title=The West's Leftist 'Intellectuals' Who Traffic in Genocide Denial, From Srebrenica to Syria |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2017-11-24/ty-article-opinion/the-wests-leftist-male-intellectuals-who-traffic-in-genocide-denial/0000017f-f346-d8a1-a5ff-f3cec4320000 |access-date=July 15, 2023 |archive-date=March 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315204708/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2017-11-24/ty-article-opinion/the-wests-leftist-male-intellectuals-who-traffic-in-genocide-denial/0000017f-f346-d8a1-a5ff-f3cec4320000 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Defenders of Chomsky have countered that he has been censored or left out of public debate. Claims of this nature date to the [[Reagan era]]. Writing for ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in February 1988, [[Saul Landau]] wrote, "It is unhealthy that Chomsky's insights are excluded from the policy debate. His relentless prosecutorial prose, with a hint of [[Talmud|Talmudic]] whine and the rationalist anarchism of [[Thomas Paine|Tom Paine]], may reflect a justified frustration."{{sfn|Landau|1988}}

==Philosophy==
Chomsky has also been active in a number of philosophical fields, including [[philosophy of mind]], [[philosophy of language]], and [[philosophy of science]].{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=19}} In these fields he is credited with ushering in the "[[cognitive revolution]]",{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=19}} a significant [[paradigm shift]] that rejected [[logical positivism]], the prevailing philosophical methodology of the time, and reframed how philosophers think about [[language]] and the [[mind]].{{sfn|Szabó|2010}} Chomsky views the cognitive revolution as rooted in 17th-century [[Rationalism|rationalist]] ideals.{{sfn|Friesen|2017|p=46}} His position—the idea that the mind contains inherent structures to understand language, perception, and thought—has more in common with rationalism than behaviorism.{{sfn|Greif|2015|p=313}} He named one of his key works [[Cartesian linguistics|''Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought'']] (1966).{{sfn|Friesen|2017|p=46}} This sparked criticism from historians and philosophers who disagreed with Chomsky's interpretations of classical sources and use of philosophical terminology.{{efn|name=rationalism|
* {{harvnb|Hamans|Seuren|2010|p=377}}: "Having achieved a unique position of supremacy in the theory of syntax and having exploited that position far beyond the narrow circles of professional syntacticians, he felt the need to shore up his theory with the authority of history. It is shown that this attempt, resulting mainly in his Cartesian Linguistics of 1966, was widely, and rightly, judged to be a radical failure"}} In the philosophy of language, Chomsky is particularly known for his criticisms of the notion of reference and meaning in human language and his perspective on the nature and function of mental representations.{{sfn|Cipriani|2016|pp=44–60}}

Chomsky's famous [[Chomsky–Foucault debate|1971 debate]] on [[human nature]] with the French philosopher [[Michel Foucault]] was a symbolic clash of the [[analytic philosophy|analytic]] and [[continental philosopher|continental]] philosophy traditions, represented by Chomsky and Foucault, respectively.{{sfn|Greif|2015|pp=312–313}} It showed what appeared to be irreconcilable differences between two moral and intellectual luminaries of the 20th century. Foucault held that any definition of human nature is connected to our present-day conceptions of ourselves; Chomsky held that human nature contained universals such as a common standard of moral justice as deduced through reason.{{sfn|Greif|2015|p=315}} Chomsky criticized [[postmodernism]] and [[French philosophy]] generally, arguing that the obscure language of postmodern, leftist philosophers gives little aid to the working classes.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1pp=192–195|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=53}} He has also debated analytic philosophers, including [[Tyler Burge]], [[Donald Davidson (philosopher)|Donald Davidson]], [[Michael Dummett]], [[Saul Kripke]], [[Thomas Nagel]], [[Hilary Putnam]], [[Willard Van Orman Quine]], and [[John Searle]].{{sfn|Szabó|2010}}

Chomsky's contributions span [[intellectual history|intellectual]] and world history, including the history of philosophy.{{sfn|Otero|2003|p=416}} Irony is a recurring characteristic of his writing, such as rhetorically implying that his readers already know something to be true, which engages the reader more actively in assessing the veracity of his claims.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=162}}

==Personal life==

[[File:Wasserman and Chomsky, 2014 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Wasserman and Chomsky in 2014]]

Chomsky endeavors to separate his family life, linguistic scholarship, and political activism from each other.{{sfnm|1a1=Barsky|1y=1997|1p=158|2a1=Sperlich|2y=2006|2p=19}}<!--"scrupulous"{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=121}}{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=78}}--> An intensely private person,{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=7}} he is uninterested in appearances and the fame his work has brought him.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=116}} McGilvray suggests that Chomsky is not motivated by a desire for fame, but impelled to tell what he perceives as the truth and a desire to aid others in doing so.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=230}} Chomsky acknowledges that his income affords him a privileged life compared to the majority of the world's population;{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=9}} nevertheless, he characterizes himself as a "worker", albeit one who uses his intellect as his employable skill.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=6}} He reads four or five newspapers daily; in the U.S., he subscribes to ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[Financial Times]]'', and ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]''.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=121}} Chomsky is not religious but has expressed approval of forms of religion such as [[liberation theology]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=69}}

Chomsky is known to use charged language ("corrupt", "fascist", "fraudulent") when describing established political and academic figures, which can polarize his audience but is in keeping with his belief that much scholarship is self-serving.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=199}} His colleague [[Steven Pinker]] has said that Chomsky "portrays people who disagree with him as stupid or evil, using withering scorn in his rhetoric", and that this contributes to the extreme reactions he receives.{{sfn|Jaggi|2001}} Chomsky avoids [[academic conferences]], including left-oriented ones such as the Socialist Scholars Conference, preferring to speak to activist groups or hold university seminars for mass audiences.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=169}} His approach to academic freedom has led him to support MIT academics whose actions he deplores; in 1969, when Chomsky heard that [[Walt Rostow]], a major architect of the Vietnam war, wanted to return to work at MIT, Chomsky threatened "to protest publicly" if Rostow were denied a position at MIT. In 1989, when Pentagon adviser [[John Deutch]] applied to be president of MIT, Chomsky supported his candidacy. Later, when Deutch became head of the CIA, ''The New York Times'' quoted Chomsky as saying, "He has more honesty and integrity than anyone I've ever met.{{nbsp}}... If somebody's got to be running the CIA, I'm glad it's him."{{sfnm|Barsky|1997|1pp=140–141|Chomsky|1996|2pp=135–136|Weiner|1995}}

Chomsky was married to [[Carol Chomsky|Carol Doris]] ({{nee|Schatz}}) from 1949 until her death in 2008.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=6}} They had three children together: [[Aviva Chomsky|Aviva]] (b. 1957), Diane (b. 1960), and Harry (b. 1967).{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=22}} In 2014, Chomsky married Valeria Wasserman,{{sfn|''Democracy Now!''|2015}} a [[translator]] for the {{Interlanguage link|Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo|lt=Institute for Advanced Studies|pt|Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de São Paulo}} at the [[University of São Paulo]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Neil |url=https://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/82144/excerpt/9781107082144_excerpt.pdf |title=Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals |last2=Allott |first2=Nicholas |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-44267-2 |edition=3rd |location=Cambridge, UK |page=2 |doi=10.1017/cbo9781139979634.004}}</ref> They have owned a home in Wasserman's native country, Brazil, since 2015.{{r|not dead}} [[Judith Chomsky]] and [[Marvin J. Chomsky]] are cousins of Noam Chomsky.

In 2023<!-- please read the sources before changing the date of Chomsky's stroke, which happened in 2023 and not 2024 -->, Chomsky suffered a massive stroke and was flown to a hospital in [[São Paulo]], Brazil, to recuperate.{{r|hospitalized}} He can no longer walk or communicate, making his return to public life improbable,<ref>{{cite news |first=Maira |last=Butt |title=Noam Chomsky, 95, 'no longer able to talk' after famed intellectual suffered 'medical event' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/noam-chomsky-health-update-tributes-b2559831.html |access-date=June 11, 2024 |work=The Independent |date=June 10, 2024}}</ref> but he continues to follow current events such as the [[Gaza war]].<ref name=hospitalized>{{cite news|title=Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky hospitalized in his wife's native country of Brazil after stroke |url=https://apnews.com/article/noam-chomsky-hospitalized-stroke-recovery-brazil-4fb6782abf6a7b6d0bbb30cefa05cede |access-date=June 11, 2024 |work=AP News |date=June 11, 2024}}</ref> He was discharged in June 2024 to continue his recovery at home.{{r|not dead}} The same month, Chomsky [[trended on social media]] amid false reports of his death. Periodicals retracted [[List of prematurely reported obituaries|premature obituaries]].<ref name="not dead">{{cite news |last=Italie |first=Hillel |title=Noam Chomsky's wife says reports of famed linguist's death are false |date=June 18, 2024 |work=[[AP News]] |url=https://apnews.com/article/noam-chomsky-alive-not-dead-5b7a1b23b8731ca311e1ec38cdc3c119 }}</ref> As of November 2025, Chomsky is reportedly still [[convalescing]] in Brazil.<ref name="deeperties">{{cite news |last=Vargas |first=Ramon Antonio |date=22 November 2025 |title=Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails |access-date=19 December 2025 |publisher=The Guardian}}</ref>

===Friendship with Jeffrey Epstein===
[[Epstein files|Emails related to the activities]] of convicted child sex offender [[Jeffrey Epstein]] released by the [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform|House Oversight Committee]] in November 2025 revealed that Chomsky closely befriended him after Epstein's 2008 conviction and remained in touch with him at least through 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Willmsen |first=Christine |date=2025-11-20 |title=Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/20/emails-epstein-mit-harvard-trump-chomsky |access-date=2025-11-20 |website=[[WBUR]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Fowler |first=Stephen |date=2025-11-20 |title=The latest Epstein emails reveal the powerful people who sought his counsel |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5613427/epstein-files-chomsky-bannon-summers-democrats |access-date=2025-11-21 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Winter |first=Jessica |author-link=Jessica Winter (writer) |date=2025-11-17 |title=The Darkest Thread in the Epstein E-mails |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-darkest-thread-in-the-epstein-e-mails |access-date=2025-11-21 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> These included a formal letter of endorsement from 2017 or later. In one letter, he wrote that he considered Epstein a "highly valued friend and regular source of intellectual exchange and stimulation".<ref name="deeprties">{{cite web |last1=Vargas |first1=Ramon Antonio |date=22 November 2025 |title=Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-ties-emails |access-date=23 November 2025 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> In December 2025, [[United States Congress|Congress]] released a photo of Chomsky with [[Steve Bannon]] from Epstein’s estate<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=Josie Ensor, Chief US |date=2025-12-13 |title=More Epstein files photos have been released |url=https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/latest-epstein-photos-released-today-files-trump-gates-bannon-d3f9c6j6q |access-date=2025-12-14 |website=The Times |language=en}}</ref> and another showing him with Epstein while flying in Epstein's private plane.<ref name="chomskyepstein">{{cite news |date=18 December 2025 |title=New photos show Noam Chomsky on Epstein’s private jet in latest release |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/noam-chomsky-epstein-files-photo-jet-b2887275.html |accessdate=19 December 2025 |work=[[The Independent]] |publisher=}}</ref> Prior to the files' release, he had said he received around $270,000 from an account connected to Epstein while sorting through common funds after his wife Carol's death.<ref name="deeprties" />

==Reception and influence==
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Chomsky has been a defining Western intellectual figure, central to the field of linguistics and definitive in cognitive science, computer science, philosophy, and psychology.{{sfn|Knight|2016|p=2}} In addition to being known as one of the most important intellectuals of his time,{{efn|name=important}} Chomsky has a dual legacy as a leader and luminary in both linguistics and the realm of [[political dissent]].{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=191}} Despite his academic success, his political viewpoints and activism have resulted in his being distrusted by mainstream media, and he is regarded as being "on the outer margin of acceptability".{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=24}} Chomsky's public image and social reputation often color his work's public reception.{{sfn|Barsky|2007|p=107}}

===In academia===
McGilvray observes that Chomsky inaugurated the "[[cognitive revolution]]" in linguistics,{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=5}} and that he is largely responsible for establishing the field as a formal, [[natural science]],{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=9}} moving it away from the procedural form of [[structural linguistics]] dominant during the mid-20th century.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|pp=9–10}} As such, some have called Chomsky "the father of modern linguistics".{{efn|name=father}} Linguist John Lyons further remarked that within a few decades of publication, Chomskyan linguistics had become "the most dynamic and influential" school of thought in the field.{{sfn|Lyons|1978|p=2}} By the 1970s his work had also come to exert a considerable influence on philosophy,{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=42}} and a [[Minnesota State University Moorhead]] poll ranked ''Syntactic Structures'' as the single most important work in [[cognitive science]].{{sfn|MSUM Cognitive Sciences}} In addition, his work in [[automata theory]] and the Chomsky hierarchy have become well known in [[computer science]], and he is much cited in [[computational linguistics]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=39}}{{sfn|Sipser|1997}}{{sfn|Knuth at Stanford University|2003}}

Chomsky's criticisms of behaviorism contributed substantially to the decline of [[behaviorist psychology]];{{sfn|Graham|2019}} in addition, he is generally regarded as one of the primary founders of the field of cognitive science.{{sfn|Harris|2010}}{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=19}} Some arguments in [[evolutionary psychology]] are derived from his research results;{{sfn|Massey University|1996}} [[Nim Chimpsky]], a chimpanzee who was the subject of a study in [[animal language acquisition]] at Columbia University, was named after Chomsky in reference to his view of language acquisition as a uniquely human ability.{{sfn|Radick|2007|p=320}}

[[ACM Turing Award]] winner [[Donald Knuth]] credited Chomsky's work with helping him combine his interests in mathematics, linguistics, and computer science.{{sfn|Knuth|2003|p=1}} [[IBM]] computer scientist [[John Backus]], another Turing Award winner, used some of Chomsky's concepts to help him develop [[FORTRAN]], the first widely used high-level [[computer programming language]].{{sfn|Fulton|2007}} Chomsky's theory of generative grammar has also influenced work in [[music theory]] and [[musical analysis|analysis]], such as [[Fred Lerdahl]]'s and [[Ray Jackendoff]]'s [[generative theory of tonal music]].{{sfn|Baroni|Callegari|1982|pp=201–218}}{{sfn|Steedman|1984|pp=52–77}}{{sfn|Rohrmeier|2007|pp=97–100}}

Chomsky is among the most cited authors living or dead.{{efn|name="most cited"}} He was cited within the [[Arts and Humanities Citation Index]] more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992.{{sfn|Babe|2015|p=xvii}} Chomsky was also extensively cited in the [[Social Sciences Citation Index]] and [[Science Citation Index]] during the same period. The librarian who conducted the research said that the statistics show that "he is very widely read across disciplines and that his work is used by researchers across disciplines{{nbsp}}... it seems that you can't write a paper without citing Noam Chomsky."{{sfn|Knight|2016|p=2}} As a result of his influence, there are dueling camps of Chomskyan and non-Chomskyan linguistics. Their disputes are often acrimonious.{{sfn|Boden|2006|p=593}} Additionally, according to journalist [[Maya Jaggi]], Chomsky is among the most quoted sources in the humanities, ranking alongside [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Shakespeare]] and [[the Bible]].{{sfn|Jaggi|2001}}

===In politics===
[[File:Noam Chomsky - Prospects for Survival - 2017 - 5.jpg|thumb|Chomsky cautions against ignoring the threats of climate change and nuclear war in the wake of [[Donald Trump]]'s election, in a 2017 speech.]]
Chomsky's status as the "most-quoted living author" is credited to his political writings, which vastly outnumber his writings on linguistics.{{sfn|Boden|2006|p=592}} Chomsky biographer Wolfgang B. Sperlich characterizes him as "one of the most notable contemporary champions of the people";{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=7}} journalist [[John Pilger]] has described him as a "genuine people's hero; an inspiration for struggles all over the world for that basic decency known as freedom. To a lot of people in the margins—activists and movements—he's unfailingly supportive."{{sfn|Jaggi|2001}} [[Arundhati Roy]] has called him "one of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time",{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=114}} and [[Edward Said]] thought him "one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions".{{sfn|Jaggi|2001}} [[Fred Halliday]] has said that by the start of the 21st century Chomsky had become a "guru" for the world's anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements.{{sfn|Jaggi|2001}} The propaganda model of media criticism that he and Herman developed has been widely accepted in radical media critiques and adopted to some level in mainstream criticism of the media,{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=129}} also exerting a significant influence on the growth of [[alternative media]], including radio, publishers, and the Internet, which in turn have helped to disseminate his work.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=142}}

Despite this broad influence, university departments devoted to history and political science rarely include Chomsky's work on their undergraduate syllabi.{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=153–154}} Critics have argued that despite publishing widely on social and political issues, Chomsky has no formal expertise in these areas; he has responded that such issues are not as complex as many [[social science|social scientists]] claim and that almost everyone is able to comprehend them regardless of whether they have been academically trained to do so.{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=161}} Some have responded to these criticisms by questioning the critics' motives and their understanding of Chomsky's ideas. Sperlich, for instance, says that Chomsky has been vilified by corporate interests, particularly in the mainstream press.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=10}} Likewise, according to McGilvray, many of Chomsky's critics "do not bother quoting his work or quote out of context, distort, and create straw men that cannot be supported by Chomsky's text".{{sfn|McGilvray|2014|p=161}}

Chomsky drew criticism for not calling the [[Bosnian War]]'s [[Srebrenica massacre]] a "genocide".{{sfn|Braun|2018}}{{sfn|Nettelfield|2010|p=142}} While he did not deny the fact of the massacre,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Corrections and clarifications |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=November 17, 2005 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/17/pressandpublishing.corrections |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077  |access-date=February 21, 2022 |archive-date=July 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712060626/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/17/pressandpublishing.corrections |url-status=live }}</ref> which he called "a horror story and major crime", he felt the massacre did not meet the [[definition of genocide]].{{sfn|Braun|2018}} Critics have accused Chomsky of [[Bosnian genocide denial|denying the Bosnian genocide]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=August 28, 2009 |title=Chomsky's Genocidal Denial |url=https://bosniak.org/2009/08/28/chomskys-genocidal-denial/ |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=Congress of Bosniaks of North America |language=en-US |archive-date=July 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728031342/https://bosniak.org/2009/08/28/chomskys-genocidal-denial/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Chomsky's far-reaching criticisms of U.S. foreign policy and the legitimacy of U.S. power have raised controversy. A document obtained pursuant to a [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA) request from the U.S. government revealed that the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) monitored his activities and for years denied doing so. The CIA also destroyed its files on Chomsky at some point, possibly in violation of federal law.{{sfn|Hudson|2013}} He has often received undercover police protection at MIT and when speaking on the Middle East but has refused uniformed police protection.{{sfn|Rabbani|2012}} German news magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' described Chomsky as "the Ayatollah of anti-American hatred",{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=10}} while American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] commentator [[David Horowitz]] called him "the most devious, the most dishonest and&nbsp;... the most treacherous intellect in America", whose work is infused with "anti-American dementia" and evidences his "pathological hatred of his own country".{{sfn|Horowitz|2001}}

{{anchor|Israel}}Chomsky's criticism of Israel has led to his being called a traitor to the Jewish people and an [[Antisemitism|antisemite]].{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=100}} Criticizing Chomsky's defense of the right of individuals to engage in Holocaust denial on the grounds that freedom of speech must be extended to all viewpoints, [[Werner Cohn]] called Chomsky "the most important patron" of the [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazi]] movement.{{sfn|Cohn|1995|p=37}} The [[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL) called him a Holocaust denier,{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=101}} describing him as a "dupe of intellectual pride so overweening that he is incapable of making distinctions between totalitarian and democratic societies, between oppressors and victims".{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=101}} In turn, Chomsky has claimed that the ADL is dominated by "Stalinist types" who oppose democracy in Israel.{{sfn|Sperlich|2006|p=100}} The lawyer [[Alan Dershowitz]] has called Chomsky a "false prophet of the left";{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=170}} Chomsky called Dershowitz "a complete liar" who is on "a crazed jihad, dedicating much of his life to trying to destroy my reputation".{{sfn|Barsky|1997|pp=170–171}} In early 2016, President [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] of Turkey publicly rebuked Chomsky after he signed an open letter condemning Erdoğan for his [[Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)#2015–present|anti-Kurdish repression]] and double standards on terrorism.{{sfn|Weaver|2016}} Chomsky accused Erdoğan of hypocrisy, noting that Erdoğan supports [[al-Qaeda]]'s Syrian affiliate,{{sfn|Sengupta|2015}} the [[al-Nusra Front]].{{sfn|Weaver|2016}}

===Academic achievements, awards, and honors===
{{See also|List of honorary degrees awarded to Noam Chomsky}}
[[File:Chomsky and Krieger.jpg|thumb|Chomsky receiving an award from the president of the [[Nuclear Age Peace Foundation]], David Krieger (2014)]]
In 1970, the London ''[[The Times|Times]]'' named Chomsky one of the "makers of the twentieth century".{{sfn|Baughman et al.|2006}} He was voted the world's leading public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll jointly conducted by American magazine ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' and British magazine [[Prospect (magazine)|''Prospect'']].{{sfn|''Foreign Policy''|2005}} ''[[New Statesman]]'' readers listed Chomsky among the world's foremost heroes in 2006.{{sfn|Cowley|2006}} In 2011, the [[US Peace Memorial Foundation]] awarded [[The US Peace Prize]] to Chomsky, "whose antiwar activities for five decades both educate and inspire".<ref>{{cite web|title=US Peace Prize |url=https://www.uspeaceprize.org/}}</ref>

In the United States he is a [[Member of the National Academy of Sciences]], the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the [[Linguistic Society of America]], the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]], the [[American Philosophical Association]],{{sfn|Contemporary Authors Online|2016}} and the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chomsky|access-date=June 9, 2021|website=[[American Philosophical Society]]|archive-date=June 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609220943/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chomsky|url-status=live}}</ref> Abroad he is a corresponding fellow of the [[British Academy]], an honorary member of the [[British Psychological Society]], a member of the [[Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina]],{{sfn|Contemporary Authors Online|2016}} and a foreign member of the Department of Social Sciences of the [[Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]].{{sfn|SASA foreign membership|2003}} He received a 1971 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], the 1984 [[American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology]], the 1988 [[Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences]], the 1996 [[Helmholtz Medal]],{{sfn|Contemporary Authors Online|2016}} the 1999 [[Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)|Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science]],{{sfn|MIT Linguistics Program|2002}} the 2010 [[Erich Fromm Prize]],{{sfn|Deutsche Presse-Agentur|2010}} and the [[British Academy]]'s 2014 [[Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics]].{{sfn|British Academy|2014}} He is also a two-time winner of the [[NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language]] (1987 and 1989).{{sfn|Contemporary Authors Online|2016}} He has also received the Rabindranath Tagore Centenary Award from [[The Asiatic Society]].{{sfn|''Soundings''|2002}}

Chomsky received the 2004 [[Carl von Ossietzky|Carl-von-Ossietzky]] Prize from the city of [[Oldenburg (city)|Oldenburg, Germany]], to acknowledge his body of work as a political analyst and media critic.{{sfn|Inventio Musikverlag}} He received an honorary fellowship in 2005 from the [[Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin)|Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin]].{{sfn|Soundtracksforthem: Interview|2005}} He received the 2008 President's Medal from the Literary and Debating Society of the [[National University of Ireland, Galway]].{{sfn|Desmond Tutu to speak to Litndeb|2009}} Since 2009, he has been an honorary member of [[International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters]] (IAPTI).{{sfn|Honorary Members of IAPTI}} He received the University of Wisconsin's A.E. Havens Center's Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship{{sfn|UoW–M|2010}} and was inducted into [[IEEE Intelligent Systems]]' AI's Hall of Fame for "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".{{sfn|IEEE Xplore|2011}} Chomsky has an [[Erdős number]] of four.{{sfn|Erdös Number at Oakland Univ|2017}}

In 2011, the US Peace Memorial Foundation awarded Chomsky the US Peace Prize for anti-war activities over five decades.{{sfn|US Memorial Peace Foundation}} For his work in human rights, peace, and social criticism, he received the 2011 [[Sydney Peace Prize]]<!--"unfailing courage, critical analysis of power and promotion of human rights"-->,{{sfn|Huxley|2011}} the [[Sretenje Order]] in 2015,{{sfn|''Politika''|2015}} the 2017 [[Seán MacBride Peace Prize]]<!--"for his tireless commitment to peace, his strong critiques to U.S. foreign policy, and his anti-imperialism"-->{{sfn|IPB|2017}} and the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award.{{sfn|MIT Linguistics Program|2002}}

Chomsky has received honorary doctorates from institutions including the [[University of London]] and the [[University of Chicago]] (1967), [[Loyola University Chicago]] and [[Swarthmore College]] (1970), [[Bard College]] (1971), [[Delhi University]] (1972), the [[University of Massachusetts]] (1973), and the [[International School for Advanced Studies]] (2012).{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1pp=xv–xvi|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=120, 143}} Public lectures given by Chomsky include the 1969 [[John Locke Lectures]],{{sfn|MIT Linguistics Program|2002}} 1975 [[Whidden Lectures]],{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=156}} 1977 [[Huizinga Lecture]], and 1988 [[Massey Lectures]].{{sfn|MIT Linguistics Program|2002}}

Various tributes to Chomsky have been dedicated over the years. He is the [[:wikt:eponym|eponym]] for [[Megachile chomskyi|a bee species]],{{sfn|Pensoft (bee)}} [[Pristimantis chomskyi|a frog species]],{{sfn|Páez|2019}} an [[Meanings of minor planet names: 52001–53000#270|asteroid]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Small-Body Database Lookup |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=52270&view=OPD |access-date=August 17, 2024 |website=ssd.jpl.nasa.gov}}</ref> and a building complex at the Indian university [[Jamia Millia Islamia]].{{sfn|JMI|2007}} Actor [[Viggo Mortensen]] and avant-garde guitarist [[Buckethead]] dedicated their 2003 album ''[[Pandemoniumfromamerica]]'' to Chomsky.{{sfn|Viggo Mortensen's Spoken Word & Music CDs}}

==Selected bibliography==
{{Main|Noam Chomsky bibliography and filmography}}

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'''Linguistics'''
* ''[[Syntactic Structures]]'' (1957)
* ''[[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory]]'' (1964)
* ''[[Aspects of the Theory of Syntax]]'' (1965)
* ''[[Cartesian Linguistics]]'' (1965)
* ''[[Language and Mind]]'' (1968)
* ''[[The Sound Pattern of English]]'' with [[Morris Halle]] (1968)
* ''[[Reflections on Language]]'' (1975)
* ''[[Lectures on Government and Binding]]'' (1981)
* ''[[The Minimalist Program]]'' (1995)
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'''Politics'''
* ''[[The Responsibility of Intellectuals]]'' (1967)
* ''[[American Power and the New Mandarins]]'' (1969)
* ''[[For Reasons of State]]'' (1973)
* ''[[Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda]]'' with [[Edward S. Herman]] (1973)
* ''[[The Political Economy of Human Rights]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Towards a New Cold War]]'' (1982)
* ''[[The Fateful Triangle]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Pirates and Emperors]]'' (1986)
* ''[[Manufacturing Consent]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Necessary Illusions]]'' (1989)
* ''[[Deterring Democracy]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Letters from Lexington]]'' (1993)
* ''The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many'' (1993)
* ''[[World Orders Old and New]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship]]'' (1997)
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* ''[[Profit over People]]'' (1999)
* ''[[9-11 (Noam Chomsky)|9-11]]'' (2001)
* ''[[Understanding Power]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Middle East Illusions]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Hegemony or Survival]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Getting Haiti Right This Time]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Imperial Ambitions]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Interventions (Chomsky book)|Interventions]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Gaza in Crisis]]'' (2010)
* ''[[How the World Works]]'' (2011)
* ''[[Making the Future]]'' (2012)
* ''[[Occupy (book)|Occupy]]'' (2012)
* ''[[Requiem for the American Dream]]'' (2017)
* ''[[The Withdrawal]]'' (2022)
* ''[[The Myth of American Idealism]]'' (2024)
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==See also==
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* [[Anarchism in the United States]]
* [[American philosophy]]
* [[List of linguists#C|List of linguists]]
* [[List of peace activists]]
* [[List of pioneers in computer science]]
* [[Theory of language]]

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==Notes==
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{{efn|name=dissident|
* {{harvnb|Macintyre|2010}}
* {{harvnb|Burris|2013}}: "Noam Chomsky has built his entire reputation as a political dissident on his command of the facts."
* {{harvnb|McNeill|2014}}: "[Chomsky is] often dubbed one of the world's most important intellectuals and its leading public dissident{{nbsp}}..."
}}

{{efn|name=father|
* {{harvnb|Fox|1998}}: "Mr. Chomsky&nbsp;... is the father of modern linguistics and remains the field's most influential practitioner."
* {{harvnb|Tymoczko|Henle|2004|p=101}}: "As the founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky, observed, each of the following sequences of words is nonsense&nbsp;..."
* {{harvnb|Tanenhaus|2016}}: "At 87, Noam Chomsky, the founder of modern linguistics, remains a vital presence in American intellectual life."
}}

{{efn|name=important|
* {{harvnb|McNeill|2014}}: "[Chomsky is] often dubbed one of the world's most important intellectuals{{nbsp}}..."
* {{harvnb|Campbell|2005}}: "Noam Chomsky, the linguistics professor who has become one of the most outspoken critics of US foreign policy, has won a poll that names him as the world's top public intellectual."
* {{harvnb|Robinson|1979}}: "Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today."
* {{harvnb|Flint|1995}}: "The man once called the most important intellectual alive keeps his office in{{nbsp}}... the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
}}

{{efn|name="most cited"|
* {{harvnb|Knight|2016|p=2}}: "In 1992, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index ranked him as the most cited person alive (the Index's top ten being Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato, Freud, Chomsky, Hegel and Cicero)."
* {{harvnb|Babe|2015|p=xvii}}: "[Chomsky] was the most cited living scholar between 1980 and 1992 (according to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index)."
}}

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 | editor1-last = Butterfield
 | editor1-first = Andrew
 | editor2-last = Ngondi
 | editor2-first = Gerard Ekembe
 | editor3-last = Kerr
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 | year = 2016
 | publisher = Oxford University Press
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* {{Cite news
 | title = Chomsky is voted world's top public intellectual
 | last = Campbell
 | first = Duncan
 | author-link = Duncan Campbell (journalist, born 1944)
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| issn = 0261-3077
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* {{cite web
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* {{cite web
 | title = Interview with Noam Chomsky on the beginnings of generative grammar
 | last = Chomsky
 | first = Noam
 | year = 2022
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 | url = https://hiphilangsci.net/2022/03/01/podcast-episode-23/
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* {{cite web
 | title = The 'Chomskyan Era' (excerpted from The Architecture of Language)
 | last = Chomsky
 | first = Noam
 | website = Chomsky.info
 | url = https://chomsky.info/architecture01/
 | access-date = January 3, 2017
| archive-date = September 23, 2015
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923203049/http://www.chomsky.info/books/architecture01.htm
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* {{Cite book| title = Linguistics and Cognitive Science: Problems and Mysteries
 | last = Chomsky | first = Noam | year = 1991
 | editor-last = Kasher | editor-first = Asa
 | publisher = Blackwell | location = Oxford
 | page = 50
}}
* {{Cite book| title = Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian
 | last = Chomsky | first = Noam | year = 1996
 | publisher = Pluto Press
 | pages = 135–136
 | isbn = 978-074531137-1
}}
* {{Cite web
 | title = Is the US Ready for Socialism? An Interview With Noam Chomsky
 | last = Chomsky
 | first = Noam
 | interviewer = C.J. Polychroniou
 | website = [[Truthout]]
 | url = https://truthout.org/articles/is-the-us-ready-for-socialism-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/
 | date = May 18, 2016
| access-date = July 19, 2019
| archive-date = August 17, 2021
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* {{Cite news
 | title = Chomsky: Saudi Arabia is the "Center of Radical Islamic Extremism" Now Spreading Among Sunni Muslims
 | website = [[Democracy Now!]]
 | url = http://www.democracynow.org/2016/5/17/chomsky_saudi_arabia_is_the_center
 | date = May 17, 2016
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 | access-date = July 29, 2016
| archive-date = April 15, 2021
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* {{Cite journal | title = Language as shaped by the brain
 | last1 = Christiansen | first1 = Morten H.
 | last2 = Chater | first2 = Nick
 | author1-link = Morten H. Christiansen
 | journal = Behavioral and Brain Sciences
 | date = October 2010 | volume = 31 | issue = 5 | pages = 489–509
 | doi = 10.1017/S0140525X08004998 | issn = 1469-1825 | pmid = 18826669
}}
* {{cite journal | title = Some reflections on Chomsky's notion of reference
 | last = Cipriani | first = Enrico
 | journal = Linguistics Beyond and within
 | year = 2016 | volume = 2 | pages = 44–60
 | doi = 10.31743/lingbaw.5637
 | doi-access = free
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* {{Cite book| title = Partners in Hate: Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers
 | last = Cohn | first = Werner | year = 1995
 | orig-year = First published 1985
 | publisher = Avukah Press | location = Cambridge, MA
 | isbn = 978-0-9645897-0-4
}}
* {{cite news
 | title = New Statesman – Heroes of our time – the top 50
 | last = Cowley
 | first = Jason
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 | date = May 22, 2006
| access-date = December 9, 2015
| archive-date = December 27, 2006
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* {{cite book
 | title = Computability, complexity, and languages: fundamentals of theoretical computer science
 | edition = 2nd
 | last1 = Davis
 | first1 = Martin
 | last2 = Weyuker
 | first2 = Elaine J.
 | last3 = Sigal
 | first3 = Ron
 | author1-link = Martin Davis (mathematician)
 | author2-link = Elaine Weyuker
 | year = 1994
 | publisher = Academic Press, Harcourt, Brace
 | location = Boston
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 | isbn = 978-0-12-206382-4
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* {{cite news
 | title = Denied Entry: Israel Blocks Noam Chomsky from Entering West Bank to Deliver Speech
 | website = Democracy Now!
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 | date = May 17, 2010
| access-date = May 4, 2016
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* {{Cite news
 | title = Noam Chomsky's Theory Of Universal Grammar Is Right; It's Hardwired Into Our Brains
 | last = Dovey
 | first = Dana
 | newspaper = Medical Daily
 | url = http://www.medicaldaily.com/noam-chomskys-theory-universal-grammar-right-its-hardwired-our-brains-364236
 | date = December 7, 2015
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* {{cite web
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* {{Cite news
 | title = Erich-Fromm-Preis: Noam Chomsky in Stuttgart geehrt
 | agency = [[Deutsche Presse-Agentur]]
 | newspaper = [[Stuttgarter Zeitung]]
 | language = de
 | url = https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.erich-fromm-preis-noam-chomsky-in-stuttgart-geehrt.9bfe6567-b195-45f1-acf4-6d9d19831972.html
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* {{cite journal | title = The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science
 | last1 = Evans | first1 = Nicholas
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 | author2-link = Stephen C. Levinson
 | journal = [[Behavioral and Brain Sciences]]
 | date = October 2009 | volume = 32 | issue = 5 | pages = 429–448
 | doi = 10.1017/S0140525X0999094X | issn = 1469-1825 | pmid = 19857320
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 | last1 = Fernald | first1 = Anne
 | last2 = Marchman | first2 = Virginia A.
 | title = Handbook of Psycholinguistics
 | editor1-last = Traxler | editor1-first = Matthew
 | editor2-last = Gernsbacher | editor2-first = Morton Ann
 | publisher = Academic Press
 | date = 2006 | pages = 1027–1071
 | isbn = 978-008046641-5
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* {{cite news| title = Divided Legacy
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 | page = 25
 | date = November 19, 1995
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* {{Cite news
 | title = A Changed Noam Chomsky Simplifies
 | last = Fox
 | first = Margalit
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 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/05/arts/a-changed-noam-chomsky-simplifies.html
 | date = December 5, 1998
| access-date = February 22, 2016
| issn = 0362-4331
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* {{cite book| title = The Textbook and the Lecture: Education in the Age of New Media
 | last = Friesen | first = Norm
 | author-link = Norm Friesen
 | publisher = [[Johns Hopkins University Press]]
 | year =  2017
 | isbn = 978-1421424347
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* {{cite news
 | title = John W. Backus (1924–2007)
 | last = Fulton
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* {{cite book| chapter = 15: Noam Chomsky and the Question of Palestine/Israel: Bearing Witness
 | last = Gendzier | first = Irene | year = 2017
 | title = The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky | edition = 2nd
 | editor-last = McGilvray | editor-first = James
 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
 | pages = 314–329
 | isbn = 978-1316738757
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* {{Cite news
 | title = Review: Noam Chomsky Focuses on Financial Inequality in 'Requiem for the American Dream'
 | last = Gold
 | first = Daniel M.
 | newspaper = The New York Times
 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/movies/review-noam-chomsky-focuses-on-financial-inequality.html
 | date = January 28, 2016
| access-date = June 1, 2016
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| archive-date = February 18, 2015
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* {{Cite encyclopedia
 | title = Behaviorism
 | edition = Spring 2019
 | last = Graham
 | first = George
 | encyclopedia = [[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]
 | editor-last = Zalta
 | editor-first = Edward N.
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 | date = 2019
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* {{Cite book| title = The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973
 | title-link = The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973
 | last = Greif | first = Mark
 | author-link = Mark Greif
 | publisher = Princeton University Press | location = Princeton, N.J.
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* {{cite book
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 | last1 = Hamans
 | first1 = Camiel
 | last2 = Seuren
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 | title = Chomskyan (R)evolutions
 | editor-last = Kibbee
 | editor-first = Douglas A.
 | publisher = John Benjamins
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* {{cite book
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 | last = Harbord
 | first = Shaun
 | year = 1994
 | title = Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments, Volumes 2–3
 | editor-last = Otero
 | editor-first = Carlos Peregrín
 | publisher = Taylor & Francis
 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MRdIAV5IVgoC&pg=PA487
 | page = 487
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* {{Cite encyclopedia
 | title = Transformational Grammar: Evolution
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 | encyclopedia = Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
 | editor1-last = Barber
 | editor1-first = Alex
 | editor2-last = Stainton
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* {{cite book
 | chapter = Chomsky's other Revolution
 | last = Harris
 | first = R. Allen
 | year = 2010
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 | editor-last = Kibbee
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 | location = Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA
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* {{cite book
 |title        = The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure
 |last1        = Harris
 |first1       = Randy Allen
 |year         = 2021
 |edition      = 2nd
 |publisher    = Oxford University Press
 |url          = https://books.google.com/books?id=x3o_EAAAQBAJ&q=randy+chomsky+wars
 |isbn         = 978-0199740338
 |access-date  = February 7, 2022
|archive-date = February 14, 2022
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* {{cite news
 | title = Noam Chomsky to Teach Politics Course In Spring
 | last = Harwood
 | first = Lori
 | newspaper = [[University of Arizona|UA News]]
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 | date = November 21, 2016
| access-date = February 4, 2017
| archive-date = June 13, 2020
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* {{cite book| title = Prolegomena to a Theory of Language
 | last = Hjelmslev | first = Louis
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 | orig-year = First published 1943
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 | date = 1969
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* {{cite web
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* {{Cite encyclopedia
 | title = Minimalist Program
 | last = Hornstein
 | first = Norbert
 | encyclopedia = International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
 | publisher = Oxford University Press
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 | date = 2003
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* {{cite web
 | title = The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky
 | last = Horowitz
 | first = David
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 | date = September 26, 2001
| archive-date = May 6, 2013
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* {{cite news
 | title = Exclusive: After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky
 | last = Hudson
 | first = John
 | magazine = Foreign Policy
 | url = https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/13/exclusive-after-multiple-denials-cia-admits-to-snooping-on-noam-chomsky/
 | date = August 13, 2013
| access-date = December 7, 2016
| archive-date = December 11, 2021
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* {{Cite journal | title = Linguistics and the state: How funding and politics shape a field | last1 = Hutton | first1 = Christopher | journal = International Journal of the Sociology of Language | date = April 30, 2020 | issue = 263 | pages = 31–36 | doi = 10.1515/ijsl-2020-2079 | s2cid = 219168139 | doi-access = free }}
* {{Cite news
 | title = Sydney Peace Prize goes to Chomsky
 | last = Huxley
 | first = John
 | newspaper = The Sydney Morning Herald
 | url = https://www.smh.com.au/national/sydney-peace-prize-goes-to-chomsky-20110601-1fgws.html
 | date = June 2, 2011
| access-date = December 23, 2015
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 | title = AI's Hall of Fame
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 | date = August 1, 2011
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 | issue = 4
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 | doi = 10.1109/MIS.2011.64
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* {{cite web
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* {{cite news
 | title = Israel: Chomsky ban 'big mistake'
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| access-date = May 4, 2016
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* {{cite news
 | title = Conscience of a nation
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 | first = Maya
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 | date = January 20, 2001
| access-date = May 11, 2016
| archive-date = January 11, 2015
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* {{cite web
 | title = Jamia Millia Islamia named a complex honoring Noam Chomsky
 | publisher = [[Jamia Millia Islamia]]
 | url = http://jmi.ac.in/bulletinboard/press-releases/latest/Honble_Minister_for_Human_Resource_Development_Shri_Arjun_Singh_visiting_Jamia_Millia_Islamia_on_04_05_2007-459
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* {{Cite news
 | title = Palestinians Divided Over Boycott of Israeli Universities
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* {{cite journal | title = The Chomskyan 'revolution' and its historiography: a few critical remarks
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* {{cite news
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* {{cite book | title = Noam Chomsky | edition = revised | last = Lyons | first = John | year = 1978 | author-link = John Lyons (linguist) | publisher = Penguin | location = Harmondsworth | url = https://archive.org/details/noamchomsky0000lyon | url-access = registration | via = [[Internet Archive]] | isbn = 978-0-14-004370-9 }}
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* {{cite news
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* {{Cite news
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* {{cite book | title = Chomsky: Language, Mind, Politics | edition = 2nd | last = McGilvray | first = James | year = 2014 | publisher = Polity | location = Cambridge | isbn = 978-0-7456-4989-4 | url = https://archive.org/details/chomskylanguagem0000mcgi_s2h6 }}
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* {{Cite news
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* {{Cite book
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* {{cite web
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* {{cite news
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* {{Cite news
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 | first = Cathleen
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 | title = Chomsky on Democracy & Education
 | editor-last = Otero
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* {{cite news
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* {{cite journal
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 | year = 2012
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 | title = A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics
 | last = Searle
 | first = John R.
 | magazine = [[The New York Review of Books]]
 | url = http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1972/jun/29/a-special-supplement-chomskys-revolution-in-lingui/
 | date = June 29, 1972
| access-date = January 8, 2014
| archive-date = March 21, 2015
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150321222207/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1972/jun/29/a-special-supplement-chomskys-revolution-in-lingui/
 | url-status = live
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* {{cite news
 | title = Turkey and Saudi Arabia alarm the West by backing Islamist extremists the Americans had bombed in Syria
 | last = Sengupta
 | first = Kim
 | newspaper = The Independent
 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-crisis-turkey-and-saudi-arabia-shock-western-countries-by-supporting-antiassad-jihadists-10242747.html
 | date = May 12, 2015
| access-date = September 6, 2017
| archive-date = May 13, 2015
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150513214636/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-crisis-turkey-and-saudi-arabia-shock-western-countries-by-supporting-antiassad-jihadists-10242747.html
 | url-status = live
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* {{cite book| title = Western linguistics: An historical introduction
 | last = Seuren | first = Pieter A. M. | year = 1998
 | publisher = Wiley-Blackwell
 | isbn = 0-631-20891-7
}}
* {{cite book
 | title = Introduction to the Theory of Computation
 | last = Sipser
 | first = Michael
 | year = 1997
 | author-link = Michael Sipser
 | publisher = PWS Publishing
 | url = https://archive.org/details/introductiontoth00sips
 | via = [[Internet Archive]]
 | isbn = 978-0-534-94728-6
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* {{cite book
 | title = Time and Psychological Explanation: The Spectacle of Spain's Tourist Boom and the Reinvention of Difference
 | last = Slife
 | first = Brent D.
 | year = 1993
 | publisher = SUNY Press
 | url = https://archive.org/details/timepsychologica0000slif
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 | page = [https://archive.org/details/timepsychologica0000slif/page/115 115]
 | isbn = 978-0-7914-1469-9
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* {{Cite book
 | title = Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals
 | last = Smith
 | first = Neil
 | year = 2004
 | author-link = Neil Smith (linguist)
 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
 | url = https://archive.org/details/chomskyideasidea00smit_676
 | url-access = limited
 | via = [[Internet Archive]]
 | page = [https://archive.org/details/chomskyideasidea00smit_676/page/n200 185]
 | isbn = 978-0521546881
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* {{cite book
 | title = Noam Chomsky
 | last = Sperlich
 | first = Wolfgang B.
 | year = 2006
 | publisher = Reaktion Books
 | url = https://archive.org/details/noamchomsky00sper/page/44
 | via = [[Internet Archive]]
 | isbn = 978-1-86189-269-0
 }}
* {{Cite journal | title = A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences
 | last = Steedman | first = Mark J.
 | journal = Music Perception
 | date = October 1, 1984 | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 52–77
 | doi = 10.2307/40285282 | jstor = 40285282
}}
* {{cite web
 | title = The Book That Changed My Life
 | last = Swartz
 | first = Aaron
 | publisher = Raw Thought
 | url = http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany
 | date = May 15, 2006
| access-date = January 8, 2014
| archive-date = November 17, 2013
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131117061230/http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany
 | url-status = live
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* {{cite book
 | chapter = Chomsky, Noam Avram (1928–)
 | last = Szabó
 | first = Zoltán Gendler
 | year = 2010
 | title = The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
 | editor-last = Shook
 | editor-first = John R.
 | publisher = Continuum
 | chapter-url = http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199754663.001.0001/acref-9780199754663-e-193
 | isbn = 978-0-19-975466-3
 | access-date = August 24, 2019
| archive-date = April 27, 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210427223401/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199754663.001.0001/acref-9780199754663-e-193
 | url-status = live
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* {{Cite news
 | title = Noam Chomsky and the Bicycle Theory
 | last = Tanenhaus
 | first = Sam
 | newspaper = The New York Times
 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/education/edlife/on-being-noam-chomsky.html
 | date = October 31, 2016
| access-date = October 31, 2016
| issn = 0362-4331
 | archive-date = October 18, 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211018053203/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/education/edlife/on-being-noam-chomsky.html
 | url-status = live
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* {{cite book| title = An A–Z of ELT (Methodology)
 | last = Thornbury | first = Scott
 | publisher = Macmillan Education | location = Oxford
 | date = 2006 | page = 234
 | isbn = 978-1405070638
}}
* {{Cite journal | title = Language is not an instinct
 | last = Tomasello | first = Michael
 | author-link = Michael Tomasello
 | journal = Cognitive Development
 | date = January 1995 | volume = 10 | issue = 1 | pages = 131–156
 | doi = 10.1016/0885-2014(95)90021-7 | issn = 0885-2014
}}
* {{cite book| title = Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition
 | last = Tomasello | first = Michael | year = 2003
 | publisher = [[Harvard University Press]] | location = Cambridge, MA
 | isbn = 978-0-674-01030-7
}}
* {{cite journal | title = Universal grammar is dead
 | last = Tomasello | first = Michael
 | journal = [[Behavioral and Brain Sciences]]
 | date = October 2009 | volume = 32 | issue = 5 | pages = 470–471
 | doi = 10.1017/S0140525X09990744 | s2cid = 144188188 | issn = 1469-1825
}}
* {{cite web
 | title = Tool Module: Chomsky's Universal Grammar
 | work = The Brain From Top To Bottom
 | publisher = [[McGill University]]
 | url = http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/outil_rouge06.html
 | access-date = December 24, 2015
| ref = {{harvid|Brain From Top To Bottom}}
 | archive-date = September 10, 2017
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170910201125/http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/outil_rouge06.html
 | url-status = live
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* {{Cite book
 | title = Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic
 | last1 = Tymoczko
 | first1 = Tom
 | last2 = Henle
 | first2 = Jim
 | publisher = Springer Science & Business Media
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LQnsSuvP9dAC
 | year = 2004
 | page = 101
 | isbn = 978-0-387-98930-3
 | access-date = October 28, 2016
| archive-date = April 28, 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210428235214/https://books.google.com/books?id=LQnsSuvP9dAC
 | url-status = live
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* {{Cite news
 | title = U.S., Britain ignored 'culture of terrorism': Chomsky
 | url = http://www.thehindu.com/2001/11/04/stories/0204000j.htm
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161224222947/http://www.thehindu.com/2001/11/04/stories/0204000j.htm
 | url-status = dead
 | archive-date = December 24, 2016
| date = November 4, 2001
| access-date = March 21, 2016
| newspaper = [[The Hindu]]
 | ref = {{harvid|''The Hindu''|2001}}
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* {{cite web
 | title = Viggo Mortensen's Spoken Word & Music CDs
 | url = http://www.viggofanbase.com/cds
 | url-status = dead
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101215194045/http://www.viggofanbase.com/cds
 | access-date = May 10, 2016
| archive-date = December 15, 2010
| ref = {{harvid|Viggo Mortensen's Spoken Word & Music CDs}}
 }}
* {{Cite news
 | title = Chomsky hits back at Erdoğan, accusing him of double standards on terrorism
 | last = Weaver
 | first = Matthew
 | newspaper = The Guardian
 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/14/chomsky-hits-back-erdogan-double-standards-terrorism-bomb-istanbul
 | date = January 14, 2016
| access-date = January 14, 2016
| archive-date = November 13, 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211113120757/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/14/chomsky-hits-back-erdogan-double-standards-terrorism-bomb-istanbul
 | url-status = live
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* {{Cite news
 | title = Noam Chomsky Is Leaving MIT for the University of Arizona
 | last = Weidenfeld
 | first = Lisa
 | magazine = Boston Magazine
 | url = https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/08/29/noam-chomsky-mit-arizona/
 | date = August 29, 2017
| access-date = June 10, 2019
| quote = Chomsky has been at MIT since 1955, and retired in 2002.
 | archive-date = August 17, 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210817160616/https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/08/29/noam-chomsky-mit-arizona/
 | url-status = live
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* {{Cite news
 | title = The C.I.A.'s most Important Mission: Itself
 | last = Weiner
 | first = Tim
 | newspaper = The New York Times
 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/10/magazine/the-cia-s-most-important-mission-itself.html
 | date = December 10, 1995
| issn = 0362-4331
 | access-date = February 18, 2017
| archive-date = May 10, 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210510183350/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/10/magazine/the-cia-s-most-important-mission-itself.html
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==Further reading==
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* {{Cite interview |title=American Socrates |interviewer=[[Chris Hedges]] |website=[[Truthdig]] |url=http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/american_socrates_20140615 |date=June 15, 2014 |ref=none |access-date=June 16, 2014 |archive-date=June 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618115344/http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/american_socrates_20140615 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |title=A Theory of the Epigenesis of Neuronal Networks by Selective Stabilization of Synapses |last1=Changeux |first1=Jean-Pierre |last2=Courrége |first2=Philippe |last3=Danchin |first3=Antoine |journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]] |year=1973 |volume=70 |issue=10 |pages=2974–2978 |bibcode=1973PNAS...70.2974C |doi=10.1073/pnas.70.10.2974 |pmc=427150 |pmid=4517949 |ref=none |doi-access=free}}
* {{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''Verbal behavior'' by B. F. Skinner |last=Chomsky |first=Noam |journal=[[Language (journal)|Language]] |year=1959 |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=26–58 |url=https://chomsky.info/1967____/ |doi=10.2307/411334 |jstor=411334 |ref=none |access-date=January 3, 2017 |archive-date=September 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910191335/https://chomsky.info/1967____/ |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |title=Human nature and the origins of language |last=Chomsky |first=Noam |journal=Radical Anthropology |date=2008–2009 |issue=2 |pages=19–23 |url=http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/sites/default/files/journal/journal_02.pdf |ref=none |access-date=July 12, 2019 |archive-date=December 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207235646/http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/sites/default/files/journal/journal_02.pdf |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite magazine |title=The World of Our Grandchildren |last=Chomsky |first=Noam |interviewer=David Barsamian |magazine=[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] |url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/noam-chomsky-interview-jacobin/ |date=February 13, 2015 |ref=none |access-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-date=March 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322130638/https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/noam-chomsky-interview-jacobin/ |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |title=Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle |last=Everett |first=Daniel L. |year=2008 |author-link=Daniel Everett |publisher=[[Pantheon Books]] |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/dontsleeptherear00ever |via=[[Internet Archive]] |isbn=978-0-375-42502-8 |ref=none}}
* {{cite news |title=Noam Chomsky interview |last=Farndale |first=Nigel |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7865508/Noam-Chomsky-interview.html |access-date=May 15, 2016 |ref=none |archive-date=April 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424055222/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7865508/Noam-Chomsky-interview.html |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite news |title=Carol Chomsky, 78, Linguist and Educator, Dies |last=Fox |first=Margalit |author-link=Margalit Fox |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/us/21chomsky-carol.html |date=December 20, 2008 |access-date=December 10, 2015 |issn=0362-4331 |ref=none |archive-date=September 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907194644/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/us/21chomsky-carol.html |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |title=Teaching Sign Language to a Chimpanzee |last1=Gardner |first1=R. A. |last2=Gardner |first2=B. T. |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |year=1969 |volume=165 |issue=3894 |pages=664–672 |url=https://www.cog.brown.edu/courses/cg2000/Papers/Chimp69ScienceGardner.pdf |bibcode=1969Sci...165..664G |citeseerx=10.1.1.384.4164 |doi=10.1126/science.165.3894.664 |jstor=1727877 |pmid=5793972 |ref=none |access-date=August 21, 2013 |archive-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412103734/http://www.cog.brown.edu/courses/cg2000/Papers/Chimp69ScienceGardner.pdf |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite book |title=Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees |last1=Gardner |first1=R. A. |last2=Gardner |first2=B. T. |last3=Van Cantfort |first3=Thomas E. |year=1989 |publisher=[[SUNY Press]] |location=Albany, NY |url=http://www.sunypress.edu/p-825-teaching-sign-language-to-chimp.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140721030409/http://www.sunypress.edu/p-825-teaching-sign-language-to-chimp.aspx |archive-date=July 21, 2014 |isbn=978-0-88706-965-9 |ref=none}}
* {{Cite web |title=IWW Interview with Noam Chomsky: Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labor |publisher=[[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] |url=http://www.iww.org/history/library/Chomsky/2009int |date=October 9, 2009 |ref=none |access-date=March 29, 2015 |archive-date=May 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511190545/http://www.iww.org/history/library/Chomsky/2009int |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |title=Chomsky and Genocide |url=https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol14/iss1/8/ |first=Adam |last=Jones |author-link=Adam Jones (Canadian scholar) |year=2020 |journal=[[Genocide Studies and Prevention]] |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=76–104 |doi=10.5038/1911-9933.14.1.1738 |s2cid=218959996 |issn=1911-9933 |doi-access=free |access-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402123617/https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol14/iss1/8/ |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |title=From Whitney to Chomsky: Essays in the history of American linguistics |last=Joseph |first=John E. |year=2002 |publisher=John Benjamins |volume=103 |series=Studies in the History of the Language Sciences |doi=10.1075/sihols.103 |isbn=978-9027275370 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Joseph |first=John E. |chapter=Chomsky's Atavistic Revolution (With a little help from his enemies) |year=2010 |author-mask=1 |title=Chomskyan (R)evolutions |editor-last=Kibbee |editor-first=Douglas A. |publisher=John Benjamins |url=https://archive.org/details/chomskyanrevolut00kibb |url-access=limited |via=[[Internet Archive]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chomskyanrevolut00kibb/page/n13 1]–18 |doi=10.1075/z.154.01jos |isbn=978-9027211699 |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |title=Théories et politiques de Noam Chomsky |trans-title=Political Theories of Noam Chomsky |last=Joseph |first=John E. |author-mask=1 |journal=[[Langages]] |year=2011 |volume=182 |number=2 |pages=55–68 |language=fr |doi=10.3917/lang.182.0055 |issn=0458-726X |ref=none}}
* {{Cite magazine |title=Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong |last=Katz |first=Yarden |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/?single_page=true |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104220252/http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/?single_page=true |date=November 1, 2012 |archive-date=January 4, 2013 |ref=none}}{{cbignore|bot=InternetArchiveBot}}
* {{cite journal |title=Education according to Chomsky |last=Knoester |first=Matthew |journal=Mind, Culture, and Activity |year=2003 |volume=10 |number=3 |pages=266–270 |doi=10.1207/s15327884mca1003_10 |s2cid=144284901 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |chapter=Is Linguistics a Branch of Psychology? |last=Laurence |first=Stephen |year=2003 |title=Epistemology of Language |editor-last=Barker |editor-first=A. |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |chapter-url=http://www.philosophy.dept.shef.ac.uk/papers/IsLingPsych.pdf |pages=69–106 |isbn=978-0199250585 |ref=none |access-date=August 19, 2013 |archive-date=July 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726080719/http://www.philosophy.dept.shef.ac.uk/papers/IsLingPsych.pdf |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |chapter=On some current views of the language universal |last=Lehmann |first=Christian |year=1982 |title=Issues in the Theory of Universal Grammar |editor1-last=Radden |editor1-first=Günter |editor2-last=Dirven |editor2-first=René |publisher=Gunter Narr |location=Tübingen |pages=75–94 |isbn=978-3-87808-565-2 |ref=none}}
* {{Cite book |chapter=Noam Chomsky |title=Key Thinkers in Critical Communication Scholarship: From the Pioneers to the Next Generation |editor1-last=Lent |editor1-first=John A. |editor2-last=Amazeen |editor2-first=Michelle A. |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |pages=1–12 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fldOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fldOCgAAQBAJ |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-137-46342-5 |ref=none |access-date=December 12, 2015 |archive-date=June 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603202458/https://books.google.com/books?id=fldOCgAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}
* {{Cite journal |title=AI's Hall of Fame: Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science |last=Lim |first=Ee-Peng |journal=[[IEEE Intelligent Systems]] |year=2011 |volume=26 |issue=4 |page=12 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5968105 <!-- Deny Citation Bot --> |doi=10.1109/MIS.2011.64 |bibcode=2011IISys..26d...5Z |ref=none |access-date=June 30, 2019 |archive-date=June 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630035238/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5968105 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}
* {{Cite news |title=The NS Interview: Noam Chomsky |last=McDonald |first=Alyssa |magazine=[[New Statesman]] |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/09/war-crimes-interview-obama |date=September 2010 |ref=none |access-date=September 15, 2010 |archive-date=September 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914215512/http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/09/war-crimes-interview-obama |url-status=live}}
* {{cite book |chapter=The cognitive foundations for reference in a signing orangutan |last=Miles |first=H. Lyn White |year=1990 |title="Language" and intelligence in monkeys and apes: Comparative developmental perspectives |editor1-last=Gibson |editor1-first=Kathleen Rita |editor2-last=Packer |editor2-first=Sue Taylor |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/languageintellig0000unse/page/511 |url=https://archive.org/details/languageintellig0000unse |url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] |isbn=978-0-521-38028-7 |ref=none}}
* {{Cite book |title=Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky |editor1-last=Mitchell |editor1-first=Peter R. |editor2-last=Schoeffel |editor2-first=John |year=2002 |publisher=New Press |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/understandingpow00chom_0 |via=[[Internet Archive]] |isbn=978-1565847033 |oclc=46936001 |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |title=The social group of wild chimpanzees in the Mahali Mountains |last=Nishida |first=T. |journal=[[Primates (journal)|Primates]] |year=1968 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=167–224 |url=http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/213162/1/yrigk00159.pdf |doi=10.1007/BF01730971 |hdl=2433/213162 |s2cid=28751730 |ref=none |hdl-access=free |access-date=October 26, 2018 |archive-date=October 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026104435/https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/213162/1/yrigk00159.pdf |url-status=live}}
*{{cite book |last=Parret |first=Herman |date=2017 |title=Discussing Language : Dialogues with Wallace L. Chafe, Noam Chomsky, Algirdas J. Greimas, M. A. K. Halliday, Peter Hartmann, George Lakoff, Sydney M. Lamb, André Martinet, James McCawley, Sebastian K. Saumjan, Jacques Bouveresse |location=Boston |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |isbn=9783110813456}}
* {{cite book |title=Music, Language, and the Brain |last=Patel |first=Aniruddh D. |year=2008 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195123753 |url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] |isbn=978-0-19-512375-3 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=The Education of Koko |last1=Patterson |first1=Francine |last2=Linden |first2=Eugene |author1-link=Francine Patterson |author2-link=Eugene Linden (author) |year=1981 |publisher=[[Holt, Rinehart & Winston]] |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-03-046101-9 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |chapter=Some basic traits of language in wild chimpanzees? |last=Plooij |first=F. X. |year=1978 |title=Action, Gesture and Symbol: The Emergence of Language |editor-last=Lock |editor-first=A. |publisher=[[Academic Press]] |location=London |pages=111–131 |isbn=978-0-12-454050-7 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |chapter=Noam Chomsky |last=Poole |first=Geoffrey |year=2005 |title=Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language |editor1-last=Routledge |editor1-first=Christopher |editor2-last=Chapman |editor2-first=Siobhan |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] |location=Edinburgh |pages=53–59 |isbn=978-0-7486-1757-9 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline |edition=Revised |last=Posner |first=Richard A. |year=2003 |author-link=Richard Posner |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |location=Cambridge, MA |isbn=978-0-674-01246-2 |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |title='Gavagai!' or the future history of the animal language controversy |last=Premack |first=D. |journal=Cognition |year=1985 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=207–296 |doi=10.1016/0010-0277(85)90036-8 |pmid=4017517 |s2cid=39292094 |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |title=Spontaneous Symbol Acquisition and Communicative Use By Pygmy Chimpanzees (''Pan paniscus'') |last1=Savage-Rumbaugh |first1=S. |last2=McDonald |first2=K. |last3=Sevcik |first3=R. A. |last4=Hopkins |first4=W. D. |last5=Rubert |first5=E. |journal=[[Journal of Experimental Psychology: General]] |year=1986 |volume=115 |issue=3 |pages=211–235 |url=http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~sereno/170/readings/21-ApeLanguage.pdf |doi=10.1037/0096-3445.115.3.211 |pmid=2428917 |ref=none |access-date=August 21, 2013 |archive-date=September 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907161216/http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~sereno/170/readings/21-ApeLanguage.pdf |url-status=live}}
* {{cite journal |title=Language learning in two species of apes |last1=Savage-Rumbaugh |first1=S. |last2=Rumbaugh |first2=D. M. |last3=McDonald |first3=K. |author1-link=Sue Savage-Rumbaugh |journal=[[Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews]] |year=1985 |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=653–665 |doi=10.1016/0149-7634(85)90012-0 |pmid=4080283 |s2cid=579851 |ref=none}}
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==External links==
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* {{Official website}}
* [https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1305 Noam Chomsky personal archives] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]
* [[iarchive:noamchomskyaudioconservatory|Noam Chomsky Audio Conservatory]] at [[Internet Archive]]
* [https://linguistics.mit.edu/user/chomsky/ Faculty page] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]
* [https://sbs.arizona.edu/chomsky Faculty page] at [[University of Arizona]]

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