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Does anyone have a recommendation for a good introduction to Chomsky's work for someone completely new to formal linguistics?


Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct is a good popularization.

Caveats: Pinker diverges from Chomsky on a lot of things, but he makes it fairly plain what's his and what is Chomsky. Pinker also gets a bad rap (unfairly in my opinion) of being a retrograde right-winger, because of his association with evolutionary psychology.




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