Morris Halle

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Latvian-American person academic linguist phonologist

Morris Halle was a pioneering Latvian-American linguist and phonologist, best known for his foundational work in generative phonology and his long collaboration with Noam Chomsky at MIT.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Latvian-American person → academic → linguist → phonologist →
coAuthor	Fred Lukoff → George N. Clements → Jean-Roger Vergnaud → Noam Chomsky →
countryOfBirth	Latvia →
countryOfCitizenship	Latvia → United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1923-07-23 →
dateOfDeath	2018-04-02 →
doctoralAdvisor	Roman Jakobson →
doctoralStudent	Donca Steriade → Jay Keyser → Mark Aronoff → Michael Kenstowicz → Noam Chomsky → Paul Kiparsky →
educatedAt	Columbia University → Harvard University → University of Chicago →
employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
familyName	Halle →
fieldOfWork	generative grammar → linguistics → phonology →
fullName	Morris Halle →
givenName	Morris →
influenced	Noam Chomsky → Paul Kiparsky → generative phonologists →
influencedBy	Nikolai Trubetzkoy → Roman Jakobson →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
nativeLanguage	Latvian →
notableConcept	distinctive feature theory in generative phonology →
notableFor	collaboration with Noam Chomsky → generative phonology → theory of distinctive features →
notableWork	The Sound Pattern of English →
placeOfBirth	Liepāja →
placeOfDeath	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States →
positionHeld	Institute Professor at MIT → professor of linguistics →
spouse	Jean Berko Gleason →
theoreticalApproach	Chomskyan linguistics → generative phonology →
workInstitution	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Linguistics and Philosophy →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
SPE → The Sound Pattern of English →	author
Morris Halle →	fullName