Bruce Hayes (linguist)

Bruce Hayes
Fields	Phonology, Generative grammar
Institutions	UCLA
Alma mater	MIT, Harvard

Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and chair of the linguistics department at the University of California, Los Angeles. 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.

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