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About Michael Hammond
- Michael Hammond is an American linguist and professor at the University of Arizona.
- He was head of the Department of Linguistics from 2001 to 2011.
- 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.
- 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.
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