Mark Hale

Mark Hale is an American linguistics professor now teaching at Concordia University in Montreal. He studies the methodology of historical linguistics as well as theoretical linguistics, Indo-European and Austronesian linguistics. He is a prominent figure in these fields. He has published numerous scholarly articleshttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=mark+hale and bookshttps://books.google.com/books?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=Mark+hale&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&lr=&as_vt=&as_auth=mark+hale&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_isbn=&as_issn= on his research. Along with colleague Charles Reiss, he is a proponent of substance-free phonology, the idea that phonetic substance is inaccessible to phonological computation.