Bruce Hayes                 Bruce P. Hayes                      

Theresa M. and Henry P. Biggs Centennial Term Chair in Linguistics [what's this?]

Dept. of Linguistics
UCLA
Los Angeles CA 90095-1543

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Office hours:  none until Winter 2022 (on sabbatical Fall 2021). You can contact me by email, though.

My office is 2101G Campbell Hall.

Visit the Gallery of Wug-Shaped Curves. These are data plots that look like wugs, based on data from several fields of linguistics. Paper to appear in Annual Review of Linguistics.


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Summary of current work  

In our current research, my collaborators and I approach a single phenomenon with three methods in parallel: (i) data analysis in the classical tradition of generative grammar, using rules and constraints; (ii) experimentation, to assess productivity and generality of phonological knowledge, (iii) modeling: machine-implemented algorithms, incorporating elements of phonological theory, learn the grammar through examination of a data corpus. The idea is to study not just the data pattern of the language, but to determine more precisely what the native speaker knows and demonstrate through modeling how she might come to know it. These goals have always been central to generative linguistics; advances in both theory and technology now help us address them more directly.

On the more formal side, I'm involved in efforts to assess models of variation in language by looking at mathematical properties of the patterns they generate. To my knowledge, these patterns represent a (possible) class of linguistic universals not previously studied. In the papers listed below, see Hayes (2017), Hayes (to appear), and Zuraw and Hayes (2019).

I also work from time to time on the analysis of poetic meter, where many of the tools of formal phonology have proven helpful.  Here is a brief summary of this work.

My CV can be accessed here.

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Talk handouts and slides

Handouts whose content is in the papers listed above are mostly not included here.  Some of these talks you can watch as web-posted video.

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