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Noam Chomsky
American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, 2010.
Noam Chomsky’s 1951 master’s thesis was titled The Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew. In this work, he began to adapt and transform the structuralist approaches of his mentor, Zellig S. Harris, and the views on formal systems held by Nelson Goodman into his own novel framework for the study of language.1