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Morris Halle, a Common card
Morris Halle was a Latvian-born American linguist who was an Institute Professor, and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 24
- Power
- 76
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,900
Power 76 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Morris Halle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Morris Halle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He also co-authored the earliest theory of generative metrics, and developed the ______ Morphology framework with Alec Marantz.
Answer
Distributed. He also co-authored the earliest theory of generative metrics, and developed the Distributed Morphology framework with Alec Marantz. From the Morris Halle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
G. David Low. G. David Low 55 · Morris Halle 52 · Shopping bag 46 · Isuzu Erga Mio 43 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The father of "modern phonology", he was 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.
- He also co-authored the earliest theory of generative metrics, and developed the Distributed Morphology framework with Alec Marantz.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Morris Halle article was read about 4,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 52 and blocks with 24: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Morris Halle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : No machine-readable author provided. Angr assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
