Morris Halle Memorial Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology

Purpose

First established in 2021, the Morris Halle Award for Faculty Excellence in Phonology will be used to defray expenses associated with participation in the LSA’s Annual Meeting. It will be awarded for outstanding scholarship in phonology by an early career faculty member in linguistics. This award is endowed with much gratitude by LSA Life Member Robert Vago (Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), who earned his undergraduate degree at UCLA (1970) and his PhD at Harvard (1974). Awarded annually.

Nominations will open in the spring of 2025.

Eligibility

Nominators and nominees must attest that they meet the basic criteria for the award that:

1. They both are LSA members and
2. The nominee is an early career phonologist

The nomination must include a CV, two papers of representative work, responses to questions related to the nominees significant impact of outstanding scholarship in phonology, forward looking and innovative character of the nominee's work in phonology, and empirical rigor of the nominee's scholarship in phonology. The nomination must include a citation statement to be read at the Award Ceremony if the nomination is selected.

Selection

The Halle Award and Fromkin Prize Committee reviews nominations and makes recommendations to the Executive Committee, which must formally approve the recommendations.