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Language and Mind

Language and Mind. Instructor: Prof. Rajesh Kumar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Language learning can be put under three broad perspectives. Some believe language is pairing of lexicon and syntax i.e. of words and the set of rules that defines how we can combine those words most fundamental of these rules are innate i.e. they are already there in the human mind before it is exposed to society. This means there is perhaps an innate Language Faculty. Still others believe that General Cognitive Abilities that account for other kinds of learning can also account for language. There are many others who strongly believe that language is essentially socially embedded and that all learning takes place through social interactions. This course will briefly account for the most convincing position and will argue for it from generative perspective and biological foundations of language. Throughout the course we will try to be familiar with relationship between language and human mind; to understand language as a special purpose cognitive ability; and to understand underlying mental computation for natural language processing. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 08 - Grammar


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On Language
Lecture 01 - What is Language?
Lecture 02 - How do We Learn Language?
Lecture 03 - Learning Language
Lecture 04 - Acquiring Language
Lecture 05 - Language Evolution
Language in Mind
Lecture 06 - Language and Language Learning
Lecture 07 - Language in Mind
Lecture 08 - Grammar
Lecture 09 - Language and Human Mind
Lecture 10 - Mechanism of Sound Production
Patterns in Sounds and Words
Lecture 11 - Consonants
Lecture 12 - Features of Sounds
Lecture 13 - Words
Lecture 14 - Words II
Lecture 15 - Words III
Words and Sentences
Lecture 16 - Words IV
Lecture 17 - Words V
Lecture 18 - Structure of a Sentence
Lecture 19 - Nature of Sentences and Phrases
Lecture 20 - Syntax
Grammar
Lecture 21 - Structure of Sentence (Agreement)
Lecture 22 - Sentence (Categories and Phrase)
Lecture 23 - Sentence (Phrase Structure)
Lecture 24 - Sentence (X bar and IP)
Lecture 25 - Sentence (Inflectional Phrase)
Advanced Grammar
Lecture 26 - Sentence (Complement and Adjunct)
Lecture 27 - Sentence (Restrictions)
Lecture 28 - Sentence (Semantic Relations)
Lecture 29 - Sentence (Case)
Lecture 30 - Sentence (Movement)
Levels of Representation and Principles of Grammar
Lecture 31 - CP and Displacement
Lecture 32 - Sentence (CP in Subject and Object Position)
Lecture 33 - Sentence (Passivization and NP Movement)
Lecture 34 - Sentence (Referential Expressions)
Lecture 35 - Sentence (Binding)
Language and Cognition
Lecture 36 - Sentence Dependencies: Compound Verbs and Negation
Lecture 37 - Language and Cognition
Lecture 38 - Language, Cognition and Computers
Lecture 39 - Language and Computers: Resolving Ambiguity
Lecture 40 - Language and Mind: A Summary