| Studied under | Joseph E Aoun |
| Mentored | Noam Chomsky |
| Notes | Adrian Aoun’s father is a linguist. Joseph Aoun studied with Noam Chomsky at MIT and spent 25 years at the University of Southern California, before taking over as president of Northeastern University in Boston. According to Joseph Aoun, his son grew up saying he would never follow him into the field of linguistics. His son hasn’t. But then again, he has. “Clearly, something rubbed off,” says Joseph Aoun. |