Carol Chomsky

Carol Chomsky ( born July 1, 1930 in Philadelphia, † December 19, 2008 in Lexington ) was a linguist, whose work is the language acquisition of children dedicated.

Life and work

Carol Chomsky was born on July 1, 1930 in Philadelphia as Carol Doris Schatz. In 1949 she married the modern linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, whom they had known since her early childhood. She received in 1951 the title Bachelor of French at the University of Pennsylvania. 1953 moved with her husband to Hasorea Chomsky, a kibbutz in Israel, but she left again after a short time. 1968 became Chomsky PhD in linguistics at Harvard University.

The now well -known work of Chomsky 's The Acquisition of Syntax in Children From 5 to 10, which was released in 1969. In the context of this book examined Chomsky, as the children's understanding of the grammatical structure of their native language evolved and how children use the skills acquired while in the interpretation of complex sentences. The earlier view that children had been fully learned the syntax of their native language at the age of five years, was refuted by Chomsky's work. Their research showed that children continue to develop their skills to understand complex sentence structures even after the age of five.

As part of their research Chomsky developed a method called repeated reading, which children should help you learn liquid reading. In this method, a child reads a passage silently while a voice recording of the same passage is played in the background. The child repeats this process until it can read the text passage in the pace of the recording liquid. Research results have shown that already led a four-time repetition to an improvement of reading in most children.

From 1972 to 1997 Chomsky was working on a faculty of Harvard University.

At the age of 78 years Chomsky died of cancer.