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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 130,356 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Morris Halle is the 110th most popular linguist (up from 113th in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from Latvia (up from 106th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Morris Halle ranks 110 out of 161. Before him are Eugen Wüster, Louis Duchesne, Heinrich Hübschmann, Stephen Krashen, Julius Pokorny, and Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze. After him are Hrachia Acharian, George Kingsley Zipf, Morris Swadesh, Anne Dacier, Jules Gilliéron, and Arie de Jong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Morris Halle ranks 217. Before him are Madeleine Lebeau, Jim Reeves, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Giulio Cabianca, Barney Kessel, and Carlos Páez Vilaró. After him are Giuseppe Rotunno, Alice von Hildebrand, Nirmala Srivastava, Rentarō Mikuni, Ioannis Grivas, and Gordon R. Dickson. Among people deceased in 2018, Morris Halle ranks 221. Before him are Sergey Litvinov, Tommy Lawrence, Rolf Hoppe, Miguel Obando y Bravo, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Mohammed Karim Lamrani. After him are Shinobu Hashimoto, René Houseman, Dragutin Šurbek, Shehu Shagari, Hans Günter Winkler, and Marty Balin.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Morris Halle ranks 103 out of 284. Before him are Ernst von Bergmann (1836), Arkady Raikin (1911), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Zenta Mauriņa (1897), Rosa von Praunheim (1942), and Garlieb Merkel (1769). After him are Jāzeps Vītols (1863), Balys Dvarionas (1904), Anatoly Solovyev (1948), Vija Artmane (1929), Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809), and Arvīds Pelše (1899).

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Among LINGUISTS In Latvia

Among linguists born in Latvia, Morris Halle ranks 1. 

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