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Morris Halle

Latvian-American linguist1923 to 2018

Supervised 50 doctoral students and 1 master's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1960 and 2005; Wikidata names Roman Jakobson as doctoral advisor and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Morris Halle, pictured

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Students51

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata9

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 123 people: 78 cited by thesis records, 47 stated by Wikidata.

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