The Most Famous
LINGUISTS from Latvia
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Linguists of all time. This list of famous Latvian Linguists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Morris Halle (1923 - 2018)
With an HPI of 49.88, Morris Halle is the most famous Latvian Linguist. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as linguists born between 1923 and 1923. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased linguists include Morris Halle.
