Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is an American linguist and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]
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Born | (1955-06-09) June 9, 1955 (age 67) Seattle, WA |
Alma mater | MIT (PhD), Harvard |
Spouse | Patricia Keating (m. 1989)[1] |
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Fields | Phonology, Generative grammar |
Institutions | UCLA |
Thesis | A metrical theory of stress rules (1980) |
Doctoral advisor | Morris Halle |
Doctoral students | Michael Hammond |
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.[3] He is married to phonetician Patricia Keating.
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