Course info

Kie Zuraw's Ling 200A, Phonological Theory I (graduate course)
Fall 2025
Here is the syllabus

Lecture handouts (some covered more than one day)

  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
  5. The duplication and conspiracy problems
  6. Rules-plus-constraints theories
  7. Optimality Theory (OT) I
  8. OT II
  9. OT III
  10. Process application I
  11. Process application II
  12. Process interaction
  13. Cyclicity and levels
  14. More levels
  15. Course wrap-up