Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is an American linguist and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...
.
Life
He received his
Ph.D. in 1980 from
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of th ...
, where his dissertation supervisor was
Morris Halle
Morris Halle (; July 23, 1923 – April 2, 2018) was a Latvian-born Jewish American linguist who was an Institute Professor, and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The father of "modern phonol ...
.
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 based phonology and
learnability.
In 2009 Hayes was inducted as a Fellow of the
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...
.
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. .
*(2004) Hayes, Bruce, Robert Kirchner, and
Donca Steriade, eds., ''
Phonetically Based Phonology''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
*(2008) ''
Introductory Phonology''. Malden, MA: Blackwell. .
References
External links
Homepage at UCLA
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
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