Bruce Hayes (linguist)

Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from MIT, where his dissertation supervisor was Morris Halle.

For the American swimmer, see Bruce Hayes (swimmer).
Bruce Hayes
Self-portrait photograph
Alma materMIT, Harvard
Scientific career
FieldsPhonology, Generative grammar
InstitutionsUCLA

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.[2]

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. "Faculty". UCLA Department of Linguistics. 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  2. "LSA Fellows by year of induction". Linguistic Society of America. 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2014.



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