NPTEL : NOC:Language and Mind (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Rajesh Kumar


Lecture 1 - On Language - What is language

Lecture 2 - On Language - How do we learn language

Lecture 3 - On Language - Learning language

Lecture 4 - On Language - Acquiring language

Lecture 5 - On Language - Language evolution

Lecture 6 - Language in Mind - Language and language learning

Lecture 7 - Language in Mind - Language in mind

Lecture 8 - Language in Mind - Grammar

Lecture 9 - Language in Mind - Language and human mind

Lecture 10 - Language in Mind - Mechanism of sound production

Lecture 11 - Patterns in Sounds and Words - Consonants

Lecture 12 - Patterns in Sounds and Words - Features of sounds

Lecture 13 - Patterns in Sounds and Words - Words

Lecture 14 - Patterns in Sounds and Words - Words II

Lecture 15 - Patterns in Sounds and Words - Words III

Lecture 16 - Words and Sentences - Words IV

Lecture 17 - Words and Sentences - Words V

Lecture 18 - Words and Sentences - Structure of a sentence

Lecture 19 - Words and Sentences - Nature of sentences and phrases

Lecture 20 - Words and Sentences - Syntax

Lecture 21 - Grammar - Structure of sentence (agreement)

Lecture 22 - Grammar - Sentence (categories and phrase)

Lecture 23 - Grammar - Sentence (phrase structure)

Lecture 24 - Grammar - Sentence (X bar and IP)

Lecture 25 - Grammar - Sentence (inflectional phrase)

Lecture 26 - Advanced Grammar - Sentence (compliment and adjunct)

Lecture 27 - Advanced Grammar - Sentence (restrictions)

Lecture 28 - Advanced Grammar - Sentence (semantic relations)

Lecture 29 - Advanced Grammar - Sentence (case)

Lecture 30 - Advanced Grammar - Sentence (movement)

Lecture 31 - Levels of Representation and Principles of Grammar - CP and displacement

Lecture 32 - Levels of Representation and Principles of Grammar - Sentence (CP in subject and object position)

Lecture 33 - Levels of Representation and Principles of Grammar - Sentence (passivization and NP movement)

Lecture 34 - Levels of Representation and Principles of Grammar - Sentence (referential expressions)

Lecture 35 - Levels of Representation and Principles of Grammar - Sentence (binding)

Lecture 36 - Language and Cognition - Sentence Dependencies: Compound verbs and negation

Lecture 37 - Language and Cognition - Language and cognition

Lecture 38 - Language and Cognition - Language, cognition and computers

Lecture 39 - Language and Cognition - Language and computers: resolving ambiguity

Lecture 40 - Language and Cognition - Language and mind: a summary