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Noam Chomsky
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Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Eastern Europe. His early academic life was profoundly shaped by an intense, though perhaps overly literal, exposure to Hebrew texts, leading him to develop an early, intuitive understanding of deep grammatical structures even before encountering formal linguistic theory. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he initially studied mathema…