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- adjective Relating to the linguist and activist Noam Chomsky.
- adjective linguistics Following the theoretical approach introduced by Noam Chomsky, et al.
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Examples
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I'm saying it's "hardwired" in the sense that walking is hardwired; that there's a general ability to learn and think abstractly, but nothing that would go so far as a Chomskyan "deep grammar".
Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For those in the dark, INFL stands for inflection and is a key component in Chomskyan analysis, being to the sentence what the noun is to the noun phrase, i.e. the notional head, as well as being a separate element from the actual verb phrase (VP).
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I take heart, therefore, from a statement made by Bernard Spolsky, after a think-tank on the applications of Chomskyan grammar, held in the late sixties.
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The developmental psychologists have been screaming about this for years, but the likes of Pinker et al haven't taken any notice, mainly because that would be the end of the Chomskyan programme in linguistics.
Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For a start, the idealised nature of Chomskyan grammar seems to bear only an accidental relationship to the way language is actually stored and generated in the brain.
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I take heart, therefore, from a statement made by Bernard Spolsky, after a think-tank on the applications of Chomskyan grammar, held in the late sixties.
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Nor are liberals immune from Chomskyan self-delusion.
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For a start, the idealised nature of Chomskyan grammar seems to bear only an accidental relationship to the way language is actually stored and generated in the brain.
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Moreover, because traditional sentence analysis includes the functional categories (subject, object, adverbial etc) that the Chomskyan analysis deliberately eliminates, the resultant analysis reveals something about the meaning of the sentence – not just its form.
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Reality shows, it seems, operate on a sort of Chomskyan deep grammar whereby we already know the structure intuitively from the start.
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