Editing Morris Halle (section)

{{short description|Latvian-American linguist}}
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| name              = Morris Halle
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| caption           = Halle in 2011
|birth_name=Morris Pinkowitz
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1923|07|23}}
| birth_place       = [[Liepāja]], Latvia
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2018|04|02|1923|07|23}}
| death_place       = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], U.S.
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| workplaces        = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
| alma_mater        = [[Harvard University]], [[Columbia University]], [[University of Chicago]], [[City College of New York]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Roman Jakobson]]
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| notable_students = [[Mark Aronoff]]<br>[[John Goldsmith (linguist)|John Goldsmith]]<br>[[Bruce Hayes (linguist)|Bruce Hayes]]<br>[[Mark Liberman]]<br>[[Elisabeth Selkirk]]<br>[[Moira Yip]]<br>[[Arnold Zwicky]]
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'''Morris Halle''', {{ne}} '''Pinkowitz''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|æ|l|i}}; July 23, 1923 – April 2, 2018), was a [[Latvian-American|Latvian]]-born [[United States|American]] [[Linguistics|linguist]] who was an [[Institute Professor]], and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. The father of "modern [[phonology]]",<ref>Thus considered by [[Noam Chomsky]], see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxs5h2Wjh5Y Morris Halle (MIT): On the morpho-phonology of the Latin verb], introduced by Noam Chomsky.</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Liberman|first=Mark|date=2016-01-14|title=Morris Halle: An Appreciation|journal=Annual Review of Linguistics|language=en|volume=2|issue=1|pages=1–9|doi=10.1146/annurev-linguistics-060515-105131|issn=2333-9683|doi-access=free}}</ref>