Course info

Kie Zuraw's Ling 200A, Phonological Theory I (graduate course)
Fall 2023
Here is the syllabus

Lecture handouts

We only had 18 lectures instead of the planned 20.
  1. Overview, introduction, and starting on SPE notation in depth
  2. SPE expansion conventions
  3. Extrinsic ordering
  4. How to tackle a phonology problem set; the duplication and conspiracy problems
  5. Rules-plus-constraints theories
  6. Optimality Theory (OT) I
  7. OT II
  8. OT III
  9. Rule application I
  10. Rule application II
  11. Process interaction
  12. Cyclicity and levels
  13. More levels
  14. Course wrap-up