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24.901 | Spring 2026 | Undergraduate

# Introduction to Phonology

Session 1: What Phonologists Do

Session 2: What Phonologists Do (continued); review IPA

Session 3: Features and Processes; problem set 1 due

Session 4: Features (continued)

Session 5: Length, Autosegments

Session 6: Length and Tone; problem set 2 due

Session 7: Vowel Harmony

Session 8: Vowel Harmony (continued); quiz 1

Session 9: Rule Ordering

Session 10: Rule Ordering (continued)

Session 11: Optimality Theory Basics; problem set 3 due

Session 12: OT (continued)

Session 13: Midterm

Session 14: OT: Conspiracies

Session 15: OT: Blockage; problem set 4 due

Session 16: Factorial Typologies: Syllables

Session 17: Factorial Typologies: Sonority

Session 18: Factorial Typologies: Stress; problem set 5 due

Session 19: Stress (continued)

Session 20:English Stress and Morphology

Session 21: Morphology: Infixing; problem set 6 due

Session 22: Morphology: Truncation

Session 23: Morphology: Reduplication; quiz 2

Session 24: Reduplication (continued)

Session 25: Course Conclusions

## Course Info

### Instructor

- Prof. Donca Steriade

### Departments

- Linguistics and Philosophy

### As Taught In

Spring 2026

### Level

Undergraduate

### Topics

- Humanities
  - Linguistics
    - Phonology

### Learning Resource Types

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