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Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist
browse: philosophers, linguists
alive
- born
- 1928
- died
- no date on record
- age
- 97
- known for
- philosopher, linguist, political writer
born 1928

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who noam chomsky is
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", 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).
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