Professor
Avram Noam Chomsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linguist; Philosopher; Educator; Social and political critic
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
1963
Linguistic research focuses on human language, the genetically-determined principles that underlie the acquisition of specific languages and fix possible variation in form and use, and more recently, the respects in which these principles constitute an optimal solution to the interface sound-meaning conditions that language must satisgy to be usable at all.
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