Chomsky (Noam Chomsky)

Noam Chomsky is a linguist and thinker known for revolutionizing the study of language. He proposed that humans have an innate ability to acquire language, suggesting our brains are naturally prewired with a universal grammatical structure. This idea contrasts with previous beliefs that language learning was solely based on experience and imitation. Chomsky’s work has deepened understanding of how we develop language skills, influence linguistics, and even impacted cognitive science, focusing on the idea that certain mental structures make language learning possible for all humans.