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Michael Hammond

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Michael Hammond
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA, PhD)
ThesisConstraining Metrical Theory: A Modular Theory of Rhythm and Destressing (1984)
Doctoral advisorBruce Hayes
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona

Michael Hammond (born 1957) is an American linguist and professor at the University of Arizona. He was head of the Department of Linguistics from 2001 to 2011.[1] He is the author or editor of six books on a variety of topics from Syntactic Typology, The Phonology of English, to Computational linguistics. He is known for his research on meter and poetics.[citation needed] He has also published more than 40 articles and presented at over 60 conferences on these topics. He serves on the editorial board of several major journals.[1]

Education and early career

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Hammond received his BA in linguistics from UCLA in 1979 and his PhD in 1984. His PhD thesis on phonology[2] was published as part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series.[3] From 1983 to 1984 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota, and from 1984 to 1988 at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He joined the University of Arizona faculty in 1988.[1]

Selected publications

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Books

  • Hammond, Michael T.; Michael P. Noonan (1988). Theoretical Morphology: Approaches in Modern Linguistics. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-322046-2.
  • Hammond, Michael (1999). The Phonology of English : A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-158355-1.

Articles and book chapters

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Curriculum vitae - Michael Hammond" (PDF). University of Arizona. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  2. ^ McCully, C. B. (2008). "M. Hammond, Constraining metrical theory: a modular theory of rhythm and destressing. (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistic Series.) Garland: New York & London, 1988. Pp. 235". Journal of Linguistics. 26 (2): 550–558. doi:10.1017/S0022226700014857. ISSN 0022-2267.
  3. ^ Hammond, Michael Theodore (1988). Constraining metrical theory a modular theory of rhythm and destressing. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. Garland. ISBN 978-0824051860. OCLC 760581185.
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