Latvian-born American linguist whose works include The Sound Pattern of English (1968), a collaboration with Noam Chomsky.
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Latvian-born American linguist whose works include The Sound Pattern of English (1968), a collaboration with Noam Chomsky.
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, but he remains active in research and publication. He is fluent in German, Yiddish, Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and English. He lives with his wife Rosamond in Cambridge, Massachusetts.He has three sons, David, John and Timothy, all of whom are married. David is a primary school teacher with one daughter, Kelly, John taught music at Yale and now teaches at Bard College as does his wife, and they have one son; Timothy has one daughter. 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.
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