Morris Halle is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at MIT.
"""One of the great contributions to phonological theory in the history of linguistics... [it is] the most comprehensive and ambitious single statement on generative phonology."" Kenneth C. Hill and Larry Nessly , Linguistics ""A book which no linguist can afford not to read and reread with great care."" James D. McCawley , International Journal of American Linguistics"