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Michael Hammond, Ph. D.
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Faculty, Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona

Office

Douglass 236
520-621-5759
hammond@u.arizona.edu

Mike Hammond teaches general courses in linguistics and specific courses in phonology, morphology, and historical linguistics, but has also taught courses on literary analysis and linguistics, speech perception and production, applied phonology, computational phonology, and phonetics. He has three central objectives in teaching and advising. In his undergraduate courses, his goal is to engage students intellectually in research and theory. In his graduate courses and with his graduate advisees, his goal is to provide cutting-edge training and intensive hands-on guidance. His third goal in both undergraduate and graduate teaching is to connect research and teaching as intimately as possible. His research covers several domains.

1 Prosodic phonology and phonological theory

In his early work, he investigated rhythm and destressing rules. Since then, he has turned his attention to basic questions of stress assignment: what are the parameters of stress assignment, and what is the proper representation of stress? This has led to work on the relevance of poetic meter and language games for linguistic theory. It has also led to work on the proper treatment of exceptions in phonological theory. He has just finished a book on English phonology from an OT perspective.

2 Phonology

Most recently, he has been working on computational phonology and the implementation of Optimality Theory as a parser. Several of these parsers are implemented and running on the web and can be reached from Hammond's Further Details Web Page.

3 Morphological theory

His early work in morphology principally focused on the treatment of inflectional, as opposed to derivational morphology. In more recent work, he has concentrated on order of affixation and bracketing paradoxes. He is currently working on a book on English morphology.

4 Speech perception

Over the last few years, he has also begun looking at psycholinguistic evidence for prosodic constituency (offline and online). In addition, he has been investigating experimentally the role of lexical frequency in phonological patterning.