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From 1941 to 1943 , Halle studied engineering at the City College Of New York . He entered the United States Army in 1943 and was discharged in 1946 , at which point he went to the University Of Chicago , where he got his Master's Degree in linguistics in 1948 . He then studied at Columbia University under Roman Jakobson , became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology in 1951 , and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955 . He retired from MIT in 1996 . However, Halle still teaches a few classes each semester. He is fluent in German, Yiddish, Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and English. He lives with his wife Rosemund in Cambridge. Halle is likely 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. External links |