Who is Leom Chomsky and is he related to Noam Chompsky?

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Who is Leom Chomsky and is he related to Noam Chompsky?

Answer 1

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor emeritus and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [2] Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community for his substantial work in theoretical linguistics and cognitive science. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political activist and a libertarian socialist intellectual.

In the 1950s, Chomsky started to develop the theory of generative grammar, which has had a profound influence on linguistics. He established the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. His 1959 review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior challenged the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior and language dominant at the time and contributed to the cognitive revolution in psychology. His naturalistic[3] approach to the study of language has affected the philosophy of language and mind.[4]

Beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War Chomsky established himself as a prominent critic of US foreign and domestic policy. He is a self-declared adherent of libertarian socialism which he regards as "the proper and natural extension of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society".[5]

According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period, and was the eighth most-cited scholar in any time period.[6][7][8]

Answer 2

"Leon Chomsky" is a character in the 2003 film "The Undertaker's Dozen," played by Lee Manka.  As a fictional character, he is not related to the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky.