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Whose early thinking was largely influenced by Jakobson's linguistic universals theory?
Jean Piaget
Louis Hjelmslev
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky's early thinking was largely influenced by Roman Jakobson's linguistic universals theory. Jakobson argued that all languages share certain universal features, such as the distinction between nouns and verbs. Chomsky adopted this idea and developed it into his own theory of Universal Grammar, which proposes that all languages are built on a set of innate principles that are common to all humans.
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