a theorem that finds the number of words of a given length that could be strung together through ambiguous grammar, this man responded to B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior with a radical theory.
This man wrote a response to a book in which the author argued that a certain type of behavior is best understood through 'functional analysis.' Also namingÂ—along with Marcel-Paul SchutzenbergerÂ—a theorem that finds the number of words of a given length that could be strung together through ambiguous grammar, this man responded to B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior with a radical theory. Introducing concepts such as 'universal grammar' and 'language acquisition device,' FTP, name this MIT linguist who famously wrote "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" in his Syntactic Structures.
This man wrote a response to a book in which the author argued that a certain type of behavior is best understood through 'functional analysis.'
Noam Chomsky