3 417 citations cant resist putting tuppence worth chomsky citation record informal observations treated non theoretical linguists 1 mathematical theory formal languages chomsky still gets cited almost automatically pioneering work hierarchies languages 2 philosophy language c gets cited lot nativist claims arguments usually rejected fodor much radical nativism gets even attention even rejection c also gets cited lot discussions wittgenstein usually example sort narrow formalist rulebased view language wittgenstein consistently argued 3 psychology c frequently claimed scientific psychology failed impress psychologists competence performance distinction autonomous language faculty assumption concern ug put c theoretical constructs beyond ken experimental empirical psychologists 4 biology would interesting know evolutionary biologists taken c views tried explain could investigated views often get mentioned general introductions rejected 5 cognitive science gardner showed mind new science c source inspiration consequently cited frequently cognitive science literature however formal comptuational approach genuinely linguistic work referred although c viewed founder cognitive science current theory grammar real impact field general seems people outside linguistics know chomsky appears aspects nontechnical parts knowledge language surely safe bet almost nonlinguist followed government binding philip swann