Lectures lack cohesiveness & consistency, therefore unreliable. E.g., told me in front of the class that I was wrong and that the morphological structure of 'unhappiness' can ONLY be unhappi-ness and not un-happiness, while the text acknowledges there ARE 2 possible structures. Further, don't expect him to make much of any extra effort to comprehend or answer your question. If you express confusion after he offers an answer, he just stares at you for a second, and then moves on. Also, avoid taking discussion with the TA Korotkova. Both appear to have an equally difficult time effectively imparting knowledge or engaging with students.

If given the opportunity, choose any other professor for this class. This was my first quarter at UCLA and it was made absolutely miserable by Prof Schutze. His lectures and excruciating, and attending them only makes the material difficult to learn and unenjoyable. Although he drops your lowest of 8 HW grades, his assignment were long and do not prepare you for exams very well. Most of his "reviews" are just confusing corrections to the book, in which he tells you to negate entire instructions in favor of his own. Although he is willing to take questions and discuss the course material outside of class, most of the time he will just correct the way to asked a question, instead of just answering it.
This course acts as a GE as well as a pre-requisite for upper division Ling course. Although I feel that it is possible to master the material if dedicated to the subject, I do not think Prof Schutze does of good job of preparing his students for upper division Ling course in a realistic and encouraging manor.

This was one of the hardest classes I have taken at UCLA. He is a horrible lecturer. I came into the classes with a high level of interest in the class and left hating every bit of it. The readings make more sense than the lectures. The homework assignments were very long and took a large amount of time. Avoid taking Ling 20 with him if you can!

The material for this class was not horrible, however, Schutze is a terrible professor, and I advise anyone to not take him. I got an A in the class, and still believe that he is a terrible lecturer. The homeworks do take a really long time, but for the most part, are understandable. His biggest problem is that he is a terrible lecturer; the exams are not terrible, and the reading isn't so bad, but his lecturers are close to impossible to sit through. This was the first class I ever fell asleep in at UCLA, and I dreaded going to them. He makes the material impossible to understand, and I had to go to so much outside help to understand the material. I thought that the actual subject was not that bad, and was actually interested in it, but the professor is definitely not the guy to go to for learning about it.