In addition to the language acquisition device and transformational-generative grammar, this man included the nonsensical "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" in his seminal work Syntactic Structures.
This man proposed the idea that children learn a language by gradually incorporating PLD into their own hypothesis. While a student under Zellig Harris, he developed a model differentiating between subconscious control, called competence, and actual use, which he called performance. In addition to the language acquisition device and transformational-generative grammar, this man included the nonsensical "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" in his seminal work Syntactic Structures. For 10 points, name this linguist, a professor emeritus of MIT.
This man proposed the idea that children learn a language by gradually incorporating PLD into their own hypothesis.
Noam {Chomsky}