Morris Halle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Morris Halle

Latvian-American linguist

Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1923

Place of Birth: Liepāja, Latvia

Date of Death: 02-Apr-2018

Profession: computer scientist, university teacher, linguist

Nationality: United States, Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Morris Halle (; July 23, 1923 – April 2, 2018) was a Latvian-born Jewish 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.