Morris halle (1923-2018)
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During this decade halle steadily built up mit's linguistics course repertoire and piloted it into a full-fledged ph.d. program, adroitly maneuvering in mit's ...
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MorrisHalle(1923-2018)PaulKiparskyStanfordUniversityIn1940MorrisHalle,17yearsold,managedtoemigrateinthenickoftimewithhisparentsfromhisnativeLatviatotheUnitedStates.AftertwoyearsofengineeringstudyinCityCollege,NewYork,hewasdraftedintotheU.S.ArmyandsenttoEurope,whereheendedupparticipatingintheliberationofParis.Dischargedin1946,hebegantostudySlavicandgenerallinguistics,firstattheUniversityofChicago,andthenatColumbiaUniversitywithRomanJakobson,whomhefollowedtoHarvardin1949.In1951hewashiredatMITtoteachRussianandGermaninthedepartmentofModernLanguages,andtoworkonphoneticsintheResearchLaboratoryofElectronics(RLE),thepeacetimeincarnationoftheRadiationLaboratorywheremuchoftheearlyworkonradarhadbeendone.ShabbilyhousedinthelegendaryBuilding20,whereitwouldlaterbejoinedbytheLinguisticsDepartment,RLEwasarichintellectualenvironmentthatreflectedthescientificfermentofthepostwarera,withelectricalengineers,mathematicians,biologists,psychologists,aswellasresearchersonlanguageengagedinavarietyofprojectsonmachi...
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