Bruce Hayes (linguist)

Bruce Hayes
Photograph by Miriam Geer
Born	(1955-06-09) June 9, 1955 (age 70) Seattle, WA
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

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]

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. ^[3] He is married to phonetician Patricia Keating.

Books

• (1985) A Metrical Theory of Stress Rules, Garland Press, New York.
• (1995) Metrical Stress Theory: Principles and Case Studies , University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 15 + 455 pp.  ISBN   0-226-32104-5.
• (2004) Hayes, Bruce, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., Phonetically Based Phonology . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-82578-4.
• (2008) Introductory Phonology . Malden, MA: Blackwell. ISBN   1-4051-8411-6.

References

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

External links

• Web page