Morris Halle

Morris Halle
Halle in 2011
Born	Morris Pinkowitz (1923-07-23)July 23, 1923 Liepāja, Latvia
Died	April 2, 2018(2018-04-02) (aged 94) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, City College of New York
Doctoral advisor	Roman Jakobson
Academic work
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Notable students	Mark Aronoff John Goldsmith Bruce Hayes Mark Liberman Elisabeth Selkirk Moira Yip Arnold Zwicky

Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz (/ˈhæli/; 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",^[1] 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.^[2]