Bruce Hayes (linguist)

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Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is an American linguist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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. He is married to phonetician Patricia Keating.

Books

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