Morris Halle

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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.

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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 self-link
givenName Morris
influenced Noam Chomsky
Paul Kiparsky
generative phonologists
influencedBy Roman Jakobson
surface form: 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, Latvia
surface form: Liepāja
placeOfDeath Cambridge, Massachusetts
surface form: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld Institute Professor at MIT
professor of linguistics
spouse Jean Berko Gleason
theoreticalApproach Chomskyan linguistics
generative phonology
workInstitution School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT
surface form: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Linguistics and Philosophy

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The Sound Pattern of English author Morris Halle
Morris Halle fullName Morris Halle self-link
SPE author Morris Halle
Roman Jakobson coAuthor Morris Halle
Donca Steriade hasAcademicAdvisor Morris Halle
Donca Steriade influencedBy Morris Halle
Paul Kiparsky doctoralAdvisor Morris Halle
Paul Kiparsky influencedBy Morris Halle
Paul Kiparsky hasAcademicAdvisor Morris Halle
Halle notableBearer Morris Halle
Halle author Morris Halle
subject surface form: The Sound Pattern of English
Mark Aronoff doctoralAdvisor Morris Halle
Fred Lukoff collaboratedWith Morris Halle
Fred Lukoff influencedBy Morris Halle