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Morris Halle
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'''Morris Halle''', né Pinkowitz, is an American
linguist. He was born in
Liepaja,
Latvia, in
1923, and moved with his family to
Riga in
1929. They arrived in the United States in
1940.
From
1941 to
1943, Halle studied engineering at the
City College of New York. He entered the
United States Army in 1943 and was discharged in
1946, at which point he went to the
University of Chicago, where he got his
master's degree in linguistics in
1948. He then studied at
Columbia University under
Roman Jakobson, became a professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1951, and earned his
Ph.D. from
Harvard University in
1955. He retired from MIT in
1996. However, Halle still teaches a few classes each semester. He is fluent in German, Yiddish, Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and English. He lives with his wife Rosemund in Cambridge.
Halle is likely 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.
External links
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Halle page at MIT
Category:1923 births Halle, Morris
Category:Living people Halle, Morris
Category:American linguists Halle, Morris
Category:Latvian linguists Halle, Morris
Category:Phonologists Halle, Morris
Category:MIT professors Halle, Morris
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