Morris Halle

Morris Halle ( born July 23, 1923 in Liepāja as Moriss Pinkovics ) is a Latvian- American linguist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Importance

Hall was primarily known by his pioneering work on generative phonology. He wrote in 1956, together with Noam Chomsky and Fred Lukoff On Accent and Juncture in English, and in 1968, together with Chomsky The Sound Pattern of English.

In the early 1990s he co-authored with Alec Marantz some work that led to the in theoretical morphology very influential theory family of distributed everywhere morphology.

Biography

Hall was born in 1923 in Liepāja 1929 and came with his family to Riga. In 1940 she went to the USA. From 1941 to 1943 he studied mechanical engineering at the City College of New York. 1943 Hall was drafted into the Army in 1946 and discharged, after which he studied linguistics at the University of Chicago in 1948 and graduated with a master. He then studied at Columbia University in Roman Jakobson, 1951 Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 and earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University title. He worked among others Juri Lotman with. In 1996, he retired at MIT, conducting research and published but still. Hall speaks German, Yiddish, Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and English. He lives with his wife Rosamond in Cambridge. The two have three sons: David, John and Timothy.

Works

  • From Memory to Speech and Back. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 2002.
  • Fundamentals of Language. Mouton, The Hague 1956 ( ² 1971, with Roman Jakobson ). German translation by Georg Friedrich Meier: basics of the language. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin ( GDR ) in 1960.
  • For Roman Jakobson. Mouton, The Hague 1956.
  • The Sound Pattern of English. Harper & Row, New York, 1968 ( with Noam Chomsky ).
  • Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality. MIT Press, Cambridge 1978 ( ed., with Joan Bresnan ).
  • The Sound Pattern of Russian. Mouton, The Hague 1959.
  • Problem Book in Phonology. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1983 ( with George N. Clements ).
  • Preliminaries to Speech Analysis. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1961 ( with C. Gunnar M. Fant and Roman Jakobson ).
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