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Morris Halle

1923 - 2018

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Morris Halle has received more than 136,217 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Morris Halle is the 118th most popular linguist (down from 110th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 103rd in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Morris Halle ranks 118 out of 214. Before him are Renato Corsetti, John Florio, August Friedrich Pott, Jules Gilliéron, Hans Ørberg, and Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda. After him are Hrachia Acharian, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, George Kingsley Zipf, Eugen Wüster, and Arie de Jong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Morris Halle ranks 246. Before him are Karl Vaino, Gordon R. Dickson, François Cavanna, Netti Witziers-Timmer, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, and Giuseppe Rotunno. After him are Ioannis Grivas, Eugene Sledge, Joseph Colombo, Primo Nebiolo, Marc Riboud, and Rhonda Fleming. Among people deceased in 2018, Morris Halle ranks 229. Before him are Mrinal Sen, Shehu Shagari, Inge Borkh, Domenico Losurdo, Otis Rush, and Phan Văn Khải. After him are Cecil Taylor, Robert Spaemann, Álvaro Arzú, Lisbeth Palme, Verne Troyer, and Yoshinori Shigematsu.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Morris Halle ranks 104 out of 323. Before him are Vizma Belševica (1931), Vilhelms Purvītis (1872), Vija Artmane (1929), Arvīds Jansons (1914), Anatoly Solovyev (1948), and Alexander von Keyserling (1815). After him are Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (1913), Johann Gerhard König (1728), Jānis Krūmiņš (1930), Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829), Balys Dvarionas (1904), and Walter Zapp (1905).

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Among LINGUISTS In Latvia

Among linguists born in Latvia, Morris Halle ranks 1. 

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