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Starting to read chomsky

madel · 2013-07-12 09:27:21

Hey guys, My background is in linguistics, a friend recently suggested Chomsky to me but I was wondering where to start with his work?

12-07-2013 10:27am

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madel

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Hey guys,

My background is in linguistics, a friend recently suggested Chomsky to me but I was wondering where to start with his work?

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His classic work was on transformational grammar if I recall correctly. Probably much modified now, as his work was in the 60s/70s.

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#3 23-08-2013 8:28am

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madel wrote: »

Hey guys,

My background is in linguistics, a friend recently suggested Chomsky to me but I was wondering where to start with his work?

This might be of interest:

http://skepticallyspeaking.ca/episodes/222-the-evolution-of-language

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