<OT> Question about texts, Doing OT (McCarthy), OT (Kager)

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Dear Optimal Listers:

The following question was recently posted on phonoloblog (
http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/07/21/ot-texts/) by D. Eric
Holt. If you have any advice you can give on the matter, please write
directly to Eric (DEHOLT01 at mailbox.sc.edu) or better, please leave a comment
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I’m hoping to get feedback about your experiences or advice regarding using
Kager’s OT textbook, along with McCarthy’s Doing OT. Some background about
the course I’m planning for: it’s a grad course that follows up a
data-analysis and argumentation course in which we used Understanding
Phonology (2nd ed., Gussenhoven and Jacobs), and didn’t really get into OT,
which we’ll be doing this semester. I’ve used the Kager text before, and am
planning to go through a chapter a week, then move on to articles that apply
OT to various subfields of particular interest to our students (variation,
change, acquisition, contact), and students will do problem sets at first,
along with article reviews and then a final research project. I’ve never
used Doing OT, and so wonder about your all’s experience with it, if you’ve
ever used it in conjunction with the Kager text (interleaved, one after the
other, ?). Any other input, advice, etc. would be much appreciated!
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