Michael Hammond is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona. He has also held the position of Assistant Professor at the universities of Arizona, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Minnesota.

• 1. Some Basic Ideas ; The sounds of English; Characterizing the sounds of English; Phonological generalizations; Treating phonological generalizations; Optimality Theory; Further reading ; 2. Syllables ; Intuitive evidence for the syllable; Distributional evidence for a syllable; A general theory of the syllable; Further reading ; 3. English Syllables: margins and consonants ; Word onsets; Word-final clusters; Medial clusters; Clusters vs. margins; Linear restrictions;Summary; Further reading ; 4. English syllables: peaks and moras ; Vowels and diphthongs; Co-occurrence restrictions; Mora-based restrictions; Syllabic consonants and [r]; Summary; Further reading ; 5. Stress, Accent, and Feet ; What is stress?; What is a metrical foot?; Intuitive evidence for the foot; Distributional evidence for the foot; General theory of the foot; Further reading ; 6. Syllables and Stress ; Basic distributional regularities; The analysis; Summary; Further reading ; 7. The Rightmost Stress ; Review of previous results; The basic analysis; The role of syllable weight; Other nominal stress patterns; Final syllables; Verbs and adjectives; Summary; Further reading ; 8. Other Stresses ; Other stresses; Long vowels; Nonfinal primary stress; Morphemes and feet; Summary; Further reading ; 9 ; Some remaining issues; Statistics; Russian; Remaining issues; Further reading ; References

... a handy source source of reference for the phonotactics and stress patterns of General American. Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press Volume 36 2000