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The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis: Noam Chomsky, Charles Hockett, and the Politics of Behaviorism,...

The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis: Noam Chomsky, Charles Hockett, and the Politics of Behaviorism,...

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The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis: Noam Chomsky, Charles Hockett, and the Politics of Behaviorism, 1955–1965

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The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis: Noam Chomsky, Charles Hockett, and the Politics of Behaviorism, 1955–1965

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United States: University of Chicago Press

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Isis, 2016-03, Vol.107 (1), p.49-73

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English

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United States: University of Chicago Press

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A familiar story about mid-twentieth-century American psychology tells of the abandonment of behaviorism for cognitive science. Between these two, however, lay a scientific borderland, muddy and much traveled. This essay relocates the origins of the Chomskyan program in linguistics there. Following his introduction of transformational generative gr...

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The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis: Noam Chomsky, Charles Hockett, and the Politics of Behaviorism, 1955–1965

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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1086_686177

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1086_686177

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0021-1753

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1545-6994

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10.1086/686177

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