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Morris Halle

1923 - 2018

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Morris Halle, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Morris Halle is the 89th most popular linguist (up from 118th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Latvia (up from 105th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Morris Halle ranks 89 out of 214. Before him are Holger Pedersen, Anne Dacier, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Gustaf John Ramstedt, Johannes Schmidt, and Jan Mukařovský. After him are Konrad Duden, Ahatanhel Krymsky, Lucien Tesnière, Adolf Erman, Matteo Bartoli, and Bernhard Karlgren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Morris Halle ranks 166. Before him are Naziha al-Dulaimi, José Giovanni, Jozef Lenárt, Andrés Rodríguez, Cathy O'Donnell, and Cesare Siepi. After him are Ferenc Szusza, Tonino Delli Colli, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Gloria Grahame, Holden Roberto, and Zofia Posmysz. Among people deceased in 2018, Morris Halle ranks 162. Before him are Nicolas Roeg, Dan Gurney, Robert Kerman, José Antonio Abreu, Vladimir Voinovich, and Lassie Lou Ahern. After him are Dragutin Šurbek, Ola Ullsten, Karl Lehmann, Per Kirkeby, Morgan Tsvangirai, and Lyudmila Alexeyeva.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Morris Halle ranks 73 out of 323. Before him are Evika Siliņa (1975), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), Karl Eichwald (1795), Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), Mstislav Keldysh (1911), and Valdis Dombrovskis (1971). After him are Vilis Lācis (1904), Edgars Rinkēvičs (1973), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), Ivars Godmanis (1951), and Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889).

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Among LINGUISTS In Latvia

Among linguists born in Latvia, Morris Halle ranks 1. 

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