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THE LANGUAGE GENERATOR

on BBC Radio 3

STUART HAMPSHIRE
Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University talks about the controversial work of NOAM CHOMSKY
Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
The talk is followed by a conversation between Professor Hampshire and Professor Chomsky in which they discuss his model of a ' generative grammar ' of the English language. and some of the implications of his ideas
The discussion was recorded for the BBC at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: second broadcast

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