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Morris Halle is Professor Emeritus at MIT. Halle's research has focused on the sound structure of language (phonology), broadly conceived, from the acoustic and articulatory properties of speech to the theoretical bases of the field. He has also contributed to the development of the theory of distributed morphology, and to the elucidation of the nature of metrical verse. Halle received his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948, his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1955. Halle has been a Professor at MIT since 1951, holding positions from Assistant Professor to Institute Professor. Representative publications include (with R. Jakobson and C.G.M. Fant) Preliminaries to Speech Analysis-Technical Report No. 13) MIT Acoustics Laboratory 1952; "Phonology in Generative Grammar," Word, 1962; (with N. Chomsky) The Sound Pattern of English (Harper and Row, 1968); (with K.P. Mohanan) "Segmental Phonology of Modern English," Linguistic Inquiry 1985; (with A. Marantz) "Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection," in The View from Building 20 (MIT Press, 1993); "On Stress and Accent in Indo-European," Language, 1997; and From Memory to Speech and Back: Papers on Phonetics and Phonology 1954-2002. (Mouton de Gruyter, 2002).

Six Problems in Phonology and Their Solution | LSA.124
MW 10:10-11:50
Three Week Course | First Session