This shift can be traced to the rise of cognitive and constructivist theories in educational psychology. Cognitive theorists such as Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget emphasized innate mental ...

Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar in the history ... Chomsky’s work had gained him recognition in linguistics, philosophy ...

Chomsky, trained in both linguistics and mathematics, was dissatisfied with the descriptive limitations of structuralism. He believed that linguistic theory should not merely describe surface ...