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Linguistic Articles by Noam Chomsky “Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew.” Master's Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1951 Linguistic Articles by Noam Chomsky “Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew.” Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1951. “Systems of Syntactic Analysis.” Journal of Symbolic Logic 18, no. 3 (September 1953): 242-56. Review of Modern Hebrew, by E. Reiger. Language 30 no. 1 (January-March 1954): 180-81. “Logical Syntax and Semantics: Their Linguistic Relevance.” Language 31, nos. 1-2 (January-March 1955). “Transformational Analysis.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1955. “Semantic Considerations in Grammar.” Monograph no. 8: 141-50. Georgetown University: The Institute of Languages and Linguistics: November 1955. with M. Halle and F. Lukoff. “On Accent and Juncture in English.” In For Roman Jakobson. 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