He refuted Skinner by claiming that small children had a "poverty of the stimulus" and worked on The Sound Pattern of English before developing the theory of transformation and generative grammars.
In this man's series of lectures in Pisa, he developed his theory of "binding." Context-sensitive, context-free, and recursively enumerable systems are members of his namesake "hierarchy," and he proposed the Merge and Move operations while replacing the rigid (*) X-Bar theory with Bare Phrase Structure. He refuted Skinner by claiming that small children had a "poverty of the stimulus" and worked on The Sound Pattern of English before developing the theory of transformation and generative grammars. For 10 points, name this author of Syntactic Structures and believer in a universal grammar, an MIT linguist and far-left political critic.
In this man's series of lectures in Pisa, he developed his theory of "binding.
Avram Noam {Chomsky}