1. Morris Halle, Pinkowitz, was a Latvian-born American linguist who was an Institute Professor, and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
11 Facts About Morris Halle
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Morris Halle co-authored the earliest theory of generative metrics, and developed the Distributed Morphology framework with Alec Marantz.
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Morris Halle arrived in the United States in 1940 and graduated from George Washington High School.
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Morris Halle 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.
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Morris Halle then studied at Columbia University under Roman Jakobson, became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951, and earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1955.
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Morris Halle is considered to be, with Noam Chomsky, the founder of the modern linguistics department at MIT.
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Morris Halle retired from MIT in 1996, but he remained active in research and publication.
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Morris Halle was fluent in German, Yiddish, Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and English.
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Morris Halle was President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1974.
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Morris Halle was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Morris Halle died on April 2,2018, at the age of 94.