Bruce Hayes (linguist)

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Bruce Hayes
Fields Phonology, Generative grammar
Institutions UCLA
Alma mater MIT, Harvard

Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and chair of the linguistics department at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from MIT, where his dissertation supervisor was Morris Halle.

Hayes works in phonology, and is well known for his book Metrical Stress Theory: Principles and Case Studies, a typologically based theory of stress systems. His research interests also include phonetically based phonology and learnability.

In 2009 Hayes was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[2]

He is married to phonetician Patricia Keating.

Books

References

  1. "Faculty". UCLA Department of Linguistics. 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  2. "LSA Fellows by year of induction". Linguistic Society of America. 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2014.

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