Morris Halle

Who is this?

Morris Halle ( HAL-ee; né Pinkowitz; 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", 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, and developed the Distributed Morphology framework with Alec Marantz.

Career

1. 1923
   Born
2. 2018
   Passed away
3. Member of National Academy of Sciences
4. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
5. Won Guggenheim Fellowship

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Liepāja
• •Citizenship: Latvia, United States
• •Known as: linguist, university teacher, computer scientist, slavist