Institutions MIT Fields Phonology, Morphology Doctoral advisor Roman Jakobson | Role Author Name Morris Halle | |
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Born July 23, 1923 (age 100)
Liepaja, Latvia ( 1923-07-23 ) Alma mater Harvard, Columbia University, University of Chicago, City College of New York Education Harvard University (1955), University of Chicago, Columbia University, City College of New York Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books The Sound Pattern of English, An essay on stress, Meter in Poetry: A New The, Problem book in phonology, The sound pattern of Russian Similar People Noam Chomsky, Paul Kiparsky, Joan Bresnan, George Armitage Miller, Janet Pierrehumbert | ||
Morris halle mit on the morpho phonology of the latin verb
Morris Halle (; Latvian: Moriss Pinkovics; born Morris Pinkowitz; July 23, 1923), is a Latvian-American linguist and an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is 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.
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Biography
Halle was born Jewish in Liepāja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They arrived in the United States in 1940. From 1941 to 1943, he 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, but he remains active in research and publication. He is fluent in German, Yiddish, Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and English.
Halle was married for fifty-six years to artist Rosamond Thaxter Strong Halle, until her death in April 2011. He has three sons, David, John and Timothy.
Halle currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.