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About Bruce Hayes (linguist)
- Bruce Hayes (born June 9, 1955) is a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics 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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