Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is an American linguist and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the

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Life

He received his

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in 1980 from

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, where his dissertation supervisor was

Morris Halle Morris Halle (; July 23, 1923 – April 2, 2018) was a Latvian-American, Latvian-born Jewish United States, American Linguistics, linguist who was an Institute Professor, and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute ...

. Hayes works in

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

, 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 Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

based phonology and

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. In 2009 Hayes was inducted as a Fellow of the

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. He is married to phonetician

Patricia Keating Patricia Ann Keating (born July 20, 1952) is an American linguist and noted phonetician. She is distinguished research professor emeritus at UCLAbr> Life She received her PhD in Linguistics at Brown University in 1980. In 1980 she joined the facu ...

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. . *(2004) Hayes, Bruce, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade, eds., '' Phonetically Based Phonology''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . *(2008) '' Introductory Phonology''. Malden, MA: Blackwell. .

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Living people University of California, Los Angeles faculty Linguists from the United States American phonologists 1955 births Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Harvard University alumni Distinguished professors in the United States Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York) alumni {{US-linguist-stub