Linguist and educator Noam Chomsky was born on December 7. He developed a theory of transformational (sometimes called generative or transformational-generative) grammar that revolutionized the scientific study of language.

• 1928年12月7日，语言学家、教育家诺姆·乔姆斯基诞生。他提出了了转换生成语法理论（有时被称为生成论或者转化-生成论），使学习语言的方法更为科学。