NOC:Fundamentals of Language Acquisition

Lecture 1 - Introduction to the course, specific properties of human language

Lecture 2 - Evolution, biological markers

Lecture 3 - Biological markers of evolution

Lecture 4 - Gestural theory of language evolution

Lecture 5 - Cultural theory of language evolution

Lecture 6 - Stages of development; Behaviorism

Lecture 7 - Behaviorism; Nativism

Lecture 8 - Other variables: CPH and ToM

Lecture 9 - Joint attention and body schematics

Lecture 10 - Methods of studying language acquisition

Lecture 11 - Stages of Development: Prenatal to Childhood

Lecture 12 - Theories of Speech Perception: Motor Theory, Universal Theory

Lecture 13 - Attunement Theory

Lecture 14 - Speech Segmentation

Lecture 15 - Speech Production

Lecture 16 - Inflectional morphology

Lecture 17 - Theories

Lecture 18 - Constructivism

Lecture 19 - Blocking Hypothesis

Lecture 20 - Dual and Single Route Models

Lecture 21 - From Phonological Word Form to Word-Meaning Mapping; Word Comprehension

Lecture 22 - Reference Problem and Extension Problem

Lecture 23 - Theories of Word Acquisition

Lecture 24 - Sociopragmatic factors and attentional learning account

Lecture 25 - Emergentist Coalition Model

Lecture 26 - The Beginning

Lecture 27 - Naivist and Constructivist Theories

Lecture 28 - Theories

Lecture 29 - Morphosyntactic Dependency

Lecture 30 - Complex Structures

Lecture 31 - Early approaches to SLA

Lecture 32 - Parallel between First and Second Language Acquisition

Lecture 33 - Theoretical Approaches

Lecture 34 - Functional Approaches

Lecture 35 - Psychological and Neural Aspects of SLA

Lecture 36 - Social aspects of SLA

Lecture 37 - Childhood bilingualism

Lecture 38 - Successive bilingualsim among children

Lecture 39 - Adult SLA

Lecture 40 - New domains

Lecture 41 - Is experience necessary?

Lecture 42 - Linguistic input, BTR

Lecture 43 - BTR (Continued...)

Lecture 44 - Geographical factors, statistical learning, social brain

Lecture 45 - Social brain (Continued...)

Lecture 46 - Grice's rules, preverbal communication

Lecture 47 - Verbal communication: speech act

Lecture 48 - Implicatures: scalar and relevance

Lecture 49 - Turn taking

Lecture 50 - Politeness, figurative language

Lecture 51 - Language areas in the Brain

Lecture 52 - Brain Mapping Methods and Milestones in Language Development

Lecture 53 - Brain Development and its Correlation with Language Development

Lecture 54 - Neural Activation Pattern for Bilinguals

Lecture 55 - Proficiency

Lecture 56 - Language Development and Cognitive Processes: Independent or Interdependent

Lecture 57 - William Syndrome

Lecture 58 - Other Neuro Developmental Disorders

Lecture 59 - Down Syndrome Interventions

Lecture 60 - Summary