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Chomsky

(ˈtʃɒmskɪ)
n
(Biography) (Avram) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield
ˈChomskyan, ˈChomskyˌite n, adj
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Chom•sky

(ˈtʃɒm ski)

n. (Avram) Noam (noʊm, ˈnoʊ əm)
born 1928, U.S. linguist and political writer.
Chom′sky•an, adj., n.
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Noun1.Chomsky - United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)
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