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Morris Halle was Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the MIT faculty in 1951, initially teaching Russian and German while conducting research in phonetics. Halle played a central role in founding the MIT linguistics program alongside Noam Chomsky and remained active in research and teaching until his retirement in 1996. Born in 1923 in Latvia, he emigrated to the United States in 1940, served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and pursued his education at the City College of New York, the University of Chicago (M.A. in linguistics, 1948), Columbia University, and Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. under Roman Jakobson.
Halle’s research focused on phonology, morphology, poetics, and Slavic languages. He co-authored the influential book The Sound Pattern of English with Noam Chomsky in 1968. His contributions helped shape modern phonological theory and the field of generative linguistics. Halle received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960 and election as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1974 and was named Institute Professor at MIT. Halle passed away in 2018 at the age of 94.
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