Michael Hammond

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Michael Hammond (born March 30, 1957) is the chair of the linguistics department at the University of Arizona and holds the rank of full Professor. He is the author or editor of six books on a variety of topics from Syntactic Typology, The Phonology of English, to Computational llinguistics. He is particularly well-known for his research on meter and poetics. He has also published more than 40 articles and presented at over 60 conferences on these topics. He was the dissertation supervisor on 15 Ph.D.s and serves on the editorial board of several major journals.

[edit] Specializations

Phonology
Computational linguistics
Poetic Meter
Language games
Psycholinguistics

[edit] Education

B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Linguistics: The University of California, Los Angeles 1979
MA in linguistics: The University of California, Los Angeles 1981
Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy:The University of California, Los Angeles 1984