ABOUT THE COURSE
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.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Anyone interested in the topic.
PRE-REQUISITES
NIL
The exam is optional. Exams will be on 20 March 2016 and 27 March 2016.
Time: 2pm-5pm
Tentative list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/pdf/Exam%20City-list.pdf
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000 needs to be paid.
Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam.
It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
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