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24.901 | Spring 2026 | Undergraduate

# Introduction to Phonology

Lecture 1: What Phonologists Do (PDF)

Lecture 2: What Phonologists Do (continued) (PDF)

Lecture 3: Features and Processes (PDF)

Lecture 4: Features (continued) (PDF)

Lecture 5: Length, Autosegments (PDF)

Lecture 6: Length and Tone (PDF)

Lecture 7: Vowel Harmony (PDF)

Lecture 8: Vowel Harmony (continued) (PDF)

Lecture 9: Rule Ordering (PDF)

Lecture 10: Rule Ordering (continued) (PDF)

Lecture 11: Optimality Theory Basics (PDF)

Lecture 12: OT (continued) (PDF)

Lecture 13: [Midterm]

Lecture 14: OT: Conspiracies (PDF)

Lecture 15: OT: Blockage (PDF)

Lecture 16: Factorial Typologies: Syllables (PDF)

Lecture 17: Factorial Typologies: Sonority (PDF)

Lecture 18: Factorial Typologies: Stress (PDF)

Lecture 19: Stress (continued) (PDF)

Lecture 20: English Stress and Morphology (PDF)

Lecture 21: Morphology: Infixing (PDF)

Lecture 22: Morphology: Truncation (PDF)

Lecture 23: Morphology: Reduplication (PDF)

Lecture 24: Reduplication (continued) (PDF)

## Course Info

### Instructor

- Prof. Donca Steriade

### Departments

- Linguistics and Philosophy

### As Taught In

Spring 2026

### Level

Undergraduate

### Topics

- Humanities
  - Linguistics
    - Phonology

### Learning Resource Types

notes Lecture Notes
assignment Problem Sets
auto_stories Readings

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