Morris Halle | |
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 Halle in 2011 | |
| Born | Morris Pinkowitz July 23, 1923 Liepāja, Latvia |
| Died | April 2, 2018 (aged 94) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, City College of New York |
| Doctoral advisor | Roman Jakobson |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Notable students | Mark Aronoff John Goldsmith Bruce Hayes Mark Liberman Elisabeth Selkirk Moira Yip Arnold Zwicky |
Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz (/ˈhæli/; July 23, 1923 – April 2, 2018), was a Latvian-born American linguist who was an Institute Professor, and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The father of "modern phonology",[1] he was best known for his pioneering work in generative phonology, having written "On Accent and Juncture in English" in 1956 with Noam Chomsky and Fred Lukoff and The Sound Pattern of English in 1968 with Chomsky. He also co-authored (with Samuel Jay Keyser) the earliest theory of generative metrics.[2]
- ^ Thus considered by Noam Chomsky, see Morris Halle (MIT): On the morpho-phonology of the Latin verb, introduced by Noam Chomsky.
- ^ Liberman, Mark (2016-01-14). "Morris Halle: An Appreciation". Annual Review of Linguistics. 2 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-060515-105131. ISSN 2333-9683.