Bruce P. Hayes                                                                                                                                                                                                 Professor of Linguistics   Dept. of Linguistics   UCLA   Los Angeles CA 90095-1543     Office hours for Fall 2009:  MW 2-3, TTh 12-1 and by appt.   2101G Campbell Hall

• Teaching
• Research/Downloadable Papers
• Software
• Links

Teaching

• Linguistics 20, "Introduction to Linguistics".  
• Linguistics 103, "Introduction to General Phonetics".  Fall 2009
• Linguistics 120A, "Phonology I" (undergraduate).  Fall 2009
• Linguistics 191 "Metrics" (undergraduate)
• Linguistics 200A, "Phonological Theory I" (graduate)
• Linguistics 201, "Phonological Theory II" (graduate).  Next offering:  Winter 2010
• Linguistics 205, "Morphology"  
• Linguistics 251, "Phonotactics", (2006, with Colin Wilson)
• Linguistics 251, "Metrics" (Winter 2008)
• Linguistics 251, "Wug and blick testing" Planned for Spring 2010

My phonology textbook.   Book description on Amazon   Find the best price My web page for the book - sound files, help for teachers, links, etc.

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Research/Downloadable Papers

I. 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.

II. Access papers by topic

• Acquisition/learnability
• The role of phonetics in phonology
• Paradigms and underlying representations
• Gradience (intermediate well-formedness, corpus frequency, etc.)
• Metrics
• Prosodic structure (stress, syllables, moras, phrasing)
• Intonation

III.  Access papers chronologically
IV.  My Curriculum Vitae (PDF format)
V.   Data files from my research.

Acquisition/Learnability

• with Kie Zuraw, Péter Siptár, and Zsuzsa Londe.  Natural and unnatural constraints in Hungarian vowel harmony.  To appear in Language.
• (2008, with Colin Wilson) A maximum entropy model of phonotactics and phonotactic learning.  Linguistic Inquiry 39:379-440.
• (with Zsuzsa Londe) (2006) "Stochastic phonological knowledge:  the case of Hungarian vowel harmony".  Preprint version.  Published in Phonology 23:59-104.
• Work on learnability of morphology/phonology in collaboration with Adam Albright and others:  overview.  
  • (with Adam Albright) (2006) "Modeling productivity with the Gradual Learning Algorithm: the problem of accidentally exceptionless generalizations".  Preprint version.  Published in Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives, edited by Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Fery, Matthias Schlesewsky and Ralf Vogel. Oxford:  Oxford University Press. Abstract.
  • (with Adam Albright) (2003) "Rules vs. analogy in English past tenses:  a computational/experimental Study,"  Preprint version.  Published in Cognition 90: 119-161.
  • (with Adam Albright) Modeling English past tense intuitions with minimal generalization." Preprint version. Appeared in Mike Maxwell, ed., Proceedings of the 2002 Workshop on Morphological Learning, Association of Computational Linguistics. Philadelphia: Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • "Segmental environments of Spanish diphthongization," with Adam Albright and Argelia Andrade.  
• "Empirical tests of the Gradual Learning Algorithm", with Paul Boersma. Preprint version.  Published (2001) Linguistic Inquiry 32:45-86.
• "Phonological acquisition in Optimality Theory:  the early stages".  Preprint version.  Appeared 2004 in Kager, Rene, Pater, Joe, and Zonneveld, Wim, (eds.), Fixing Priorities: Constraints in Phonological Acquisition. Cambridge University Press.

The Role of Phonetics in Phonology

with Kie Zuraw, Péter Siptár, and Zsuzsa Londe.  Natural and unnatural constraints in Hungarian vowel harmony.  Ms., submitted. Phonetically-Based Phonology, edited with  Robert Kirchner and Donca Steriade, Cambridge University Press, 2004.  [click to shop] "Phonetically-Driven Phonology: The Role of Optimality Theory and Inductive Grounding" (1999) in Michael Darnell, Edith Moravscik, Michael Noonan, Frederick Newmeyer, and Kathleen Wheatly, eds., Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics, Volume I: General Papers, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 243-285.  "The Phonetics of Post-Nasal Voicing" (ms. 1995; with Tanya Stivers) The Phonetics-Phonology Interface: Comments on Clements & Osu, Solé, Frota, and Chitoran et al..  About consonant clusters in Georgian.  Preprint version; final version appeared 2002 in Carlos Gussenhoven and Natasha Warner, eds., Laboratory Phonology 7, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, pp. 449-454.

Paradigms and Underlying Representations

• Phonological Restructuring in Yidin^y and its Theoretical Consequences, Preprint version.  Published 1999 in Ben Hermans and Marc Oostendorp, eds., The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 175-205.
• Talk handout:  “On the Richness of Paradigms, and the Insufficiency of Underlying Representations in Accounting for them”
• "On What To Teach the Undergraduates:  Some Changing Orthodoxies in Phonological Theory." Preprint version.  Published 1995 in Ik-Hwan Lee, ed., Linguistics in the Morning Calm 3, Hanshin, Seoul, pp. 59-77.

Gradience

• (with Zsuzsa Londe) (2006) "Stochastic phonological knowledge:  the case of Hungarian vowel harmony".  Preprint version.  Published in Phonology 23: 59-104.
• "Gradient well-formedness in Optimality Theory".  Preprint version.  Published 2000 in Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw and Jeroen van de Weijer, eds., Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition, Oxford University Press, pp. 88-120.
• "Quatrain form in English Folk Verse" (with Margaret MacEachern).  Preprint version.  Published 1998 in Language 64, 473-507.  
  

Metrics

• Overview of metrics papers
• "Textsetting as constraint conflict" (2005; to appear in Aroui, Jean-Louis and Andy Arleo, eds. (forthcoming) Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms. Amsterdam, Elsevier.
• "Faithfulness and componentiality in metrics" (2001; to appear in a festschrift volume for Paul Kiparsky)
• "Are there lines in English folk poetry" (with Margaret MacEachern), UCLA Working Papers in Phonology 1, 125-142 (1996).
• "Quatrain  form in English folk verse" (with Margaret MacEachern), Language 64, 473-507 (1998)
• "The role of phonological phrasing in sung and chanted verse" (with Abigail Kaun), The Linguistic Review 13, 243-303 (1996).
• "The Prosodic Hierarchy in meter" (1989) [scanned; 3 Mb] in Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, eds., Rhythm and Meter, Academic Press, Orlando, FL, pp. 201-260 (1989).  Searchable version, 20 Mb.
• "A grid-based theory of English meter," Linguistic Inquiry 14, 357-393.   searchable (20 meg)
• The rhythmic structure of Persian verse [scanned, 2 Mb], Edebiyat 4, 193-242 (1979).

Prosodic Structure

Metrical Stress Theory:  Principles and Case Studies (1995), University of Chicago Press.  [click to shop] "Reduplication and syllabification in Ilokano" (1989) [scanned; 2.6 Mb] (with May Abad) Lingua 77, 331-374.   "The Prosodic Hierarchy in meter" (1989) [scanned; 1.8 Mb] in Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, eds., Rhythm and Meter, Academic Press, Orlando, FL, pp. 201-260 (1989).   "Compensatory lengthening in moraic phonology" (1989) [scanned, 2 Mb], Linguistic Inquiry 20: 253-306 (1989).  This version, 5 Mb, has searchable text.  "Precompiled phrasal phonology," (1990) [scanned, 772k]  in Sharon Inkelas and Draga Zec, eds., The Syntax-Phonology Connection, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, CA, and University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 85-108. "The phonology of rhythm in English" (1984) [scanned, 8 Mb].  Linguistic Inquiry 15, 33-74.

Intonation

• "Bengali intonational phonology" (1991) [scanned, 1.3 Mb] (with Aditi Lahiri) Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 9: 47-96.
• "Durationally specified intonation in English and Bengali" (1991) [scanned, 2 Mb] (with Aditi Lahiri) in Johan Sundberg, Lennart Nord, and Rolf Carlson, eds., Music, Language, Speech, and Brain, Macmillan, London, pp. 78-91.

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Software

• Maxent Grammar tool:  weight constraints using maxent
• Phonotactic learning software, prepared for Hayes and Wilson (in press)
• Optimality Theory software (OTSoft):  Rank constraints in Optimality Theory using a variety of algorithms
• Minimal generalization learner (learns alternations; used in various papers by Albright and Hayes)
• FeaturePad:  Learn features, check your use of features to describe natural classes and feature changes.
• PhonologyPad:  Use a computer to implement and check solutions to classical paradigm-based phonology problems.
• Query Google:  Use the Google search engine to obtain the text frequency on the Internet of words and phrases
• Various little utility programs useful for doing phonology (string reversal, searching for compounds, token to type conversion, etc.)

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Links

• Information on phonetic fonts
• Current and former graduate students
• Undergraduate Advising
• Papers about teaching
• Personal

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Last updated September 24, 2009