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American linguist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is an American linguist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]
Bruce Hayes | |
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Photograph by Miriam Geer | |
| Born | June 9, 1955 |
| Alma mater | MIT (PhD), Harvard |
| Spouse | Patricia Keating (m. 1989)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| 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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