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American linguist
Bruce Hayes
Photograph by Miriam Geer
Born (1955-06-09) June 9, 1955 (age 69)
Seattle, WA
Alma materMIT (PhD), Harvard
SpousePatricia Keating (m. 1989)
Scientific career
FieldsPhonology, Generative grammar
InstitutionsUCLA
ThesisA metrical theory of stress rules (1980)
Doctoral advisorMorris Halle
Doctoral studentsMichael Hammond

Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is an American linguist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Life

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. He is married to phonetician Patricia Keating.

Books

References

  1. "Bruce Hayes - personal page". linguistics.ucla.edu.
  2. "Faculty". UCLA Department of Linguistics. 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. "LSA Fellows by year of induction". Linguistic Society of America. 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2014.

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