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Who is Noam Chomsky from Genie: A Scientific Tragedy and what is their importance?

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Noam Chomsky is a linguist who published in 1957 a studied that would change the way many people looked at the development of language. Chomsky wrote that children are born with the ability to understand syntax. According to Chomsky, there is one sentence that all babies are born able to understand, but most sentences are not like this one. Therefore, the language learner must learn to move the sentence around in order to understand language.