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Language and Mind

Prof. Rajesh Kumar · IIT Madras

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Lectures

Week 1 : On Language

  1. What is language Video
  2. How do we learn language Video
  3. Learning language Video
  4. Acquiring language Video
  5. Language evolution Video
  6. Language and language learning Video
  7. Language in mind Video

Week 2 : Language in Mind

  1. Grammar Video
  2. Language and human mind Video
  3. Mechanism of sound production Video

Week 3 : Patterns in sounds and words

  1. Consonants Video
  2. Features of sounds Video
  3. Words Video
  4. Words-II Video
  5. Words III Video

Week 4:Words and Sentences

  1. Words IV Video
  2. Words V Video
  3. Structure of a sentence Video
  4. Nature of sentences and phrases Video
  5. Syntax Video

Week 5: Grammar

  1. Structure of sentence (agreement) Video
  2. Sentence (categories and phrase) Video
  3. Sentence (phrase structure) Video
  4. Sentence (X bar and IP) Video
  5. Sentence (inflectional phrase) Video

Week 6:Advanced Grammar

  1. Sentence (compliment and adjunct) Video
  2. Sentence (restrictions) Video
  3. Sentence (semantic relations) Video
  4. Sentence (case) Video
  5. Sentence (movement) Video

Week 7:Levels of representation and principles of grammar

  1. CP and displacement Video
  2. Sentence (CP in subject and object position) Video
  3. Sentence (passivization and NP movement) Video
  4. Sentence (referential expressions) Video
  5. Sentence (binding) Video

Week 8:Language and cognition

  1. Sentence Dependencies: Compound verbs and negation Video
  2. Language and cognition Video
  3. Language, cognition and computers Video
  4. Language and computers: resolving ambiguity Video
  5. Language and mind: a summary Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Rajesh Kumar
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
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