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Introduction to the Psychology of Language

Prof. Ark Verma · IIT Kanpur

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Lectures

Week 1: Introduction to Language

  1. Lecture 1: Introduction to Language Video
  2. Lecture 2: Basic Concepts in Psycholinguistics Video
  3. Lecture 3: Animal Communication Video
  4. Lecture 4: Evolution of Language Video
  5. Lecture 5: Language and Thought Video

Week 2: Language Development in Infants & Young Children

  1. Lecture 6: Do children talk?... And How? Video
  2. Lecture 7: The First Steps in Language Acquisition Video
  3. Lecture 8: Segmenting the speech stream Video
  4. Lecture 9: Learning Word - Meanings... Video
  5. Lecture 10: Acquiring Morphological and Syntactic Knowledge Video

Week 3: Speech Production and Comprehension

  1. Lecture 11: Speech Production 1 Video
  2. Lecture 12: Speech Production 2 Video
  3. Lecture 13: Speech Production 3 Video
  4. Lecture 14: Speech Comprehension 1 Video
  5. Lecture 15: Speech Comprehension 2 Video

Week 4: Word Processing

  1. Lecture 16: Understanding Word Meaning Video
  2. Lecture 17: Word Meaning & Lexical Access Video
  3. Lecture 18: Lexical Access Video
  4. Lecture 19: Ambiguity and Representation of Meaning in the Brain Video
  5. Lecture 20: Meaning in the Brain Video

Week 5: Sentence Processing

  1. Lecture 21: What is a sentence? Video
  2. Lecture 22: Parsing Sentences - 1 Video
  3. Lecture 23: Parsing Sentences - 2 Video
  4. Lecture 24: Parsing Sentences - 3 Video
  5. Lecture 25: Parsing Sentences - 4 Video

Week 6: Reading

  1. Lecture 26: Reading - 1 Video
  2. Lecture 27: Theories of Reading Video
  3. Lecture 28: Cognitive Processes in Reading Video
  4. Lecture 29: Recognising Visual Words Video
  5. Lecture 30: Dyslexia Video

Week 7: The Neural Basis of Language

  1. Lecture 31: Neural Basis of Word Meaning Video
  2. Lecture 32: Neural Basis of Language Comprehension Video
  3. Lecture 33: Neural Basis of Language Comprehension Video
  4. Lecture 34: Neural Basis of Language Comprehension & Production Video
  5. Lecture 35: Aphasia Video

Week 8: Bilingualism

  1. Lecture 36: Bilingualism - 1 Video
  2. Lecture 37: Bilingualism - 2 Video
  3. Lecture 38: Bilingualism - 3 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kanpur
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Ark Verma
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
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