Dear Optimal Listers:<br><br>The following question was recently posted on phonoloblog (<a href="http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/07/21/ot-texts/">http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/07/21/ot-texts/</a>) by D. Eric Holt. If you have any advice you can give on the matter, please write directly to Eric (<a href="mailto:DEHOLT01@mailbox.sc.edu">DEHOLT01@mailbox.sc.edu</a>) or better, please leave a comment on the original post so that all readers may benefit. (Note: replying directly to this list will not work!)<br>
<br><blockquote>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!<br>
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