# From recognising words to understanding sentences

Tracks linguistic units and processing questions from words through structure to discourse.

1. [Lecture 6 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands](https://oyc.yale.edu/psychology/psyc-110/lecture-6)
   Start with a broad account of language so that sound, word, structure and meaning are available as separate questions.
   Task: Make four columns: signal, word, sentence and context. Place one question from the lecture in each.

2. [Lecture 17: Word Meaning & Lexical Access](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109104143)
   The lexical-access sequence narrows the route to how relevant word knowledge becomes available.
   Task: Choose a familiar word and distinguish its form, meaning and grammatical use. State what a recognition task would ask a participant to do.

3. [Lecture 18: Lexical Access](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109104143)
   Continue the same course’s lexical-access treatment before moving to larger units.
   Task: Compare recognising the word with trying to produce it. Specify what would count as an error in each task.

4. [Lecture 21: What is a sentence?](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109104143)
   Now make the sentence the unit of analysis, while retaining the distinction between structure and processing.
   Task: Write a sentence whose final phrase could modify two different things. Give the two interpretations without yet claiming how a listener chooses.

5. [Lecture 22: Parsing Sentences - 1](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109104143)
   The first parsing lecture begins the course’s explicit sequence on assigning structure during comprehension.
   Task: Draw or paraphrase the two structural analyses. State one observation that a proposed processing account would need to explain.

6. [Lecture 23: Parsing Sentences - 2](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109104143)
   The second parsing lecture provides continuity rather than a disconnected overview of the same label.
   Task: Write two competing predictions about when ambiguity might affect a response. Identify the task and comparison needed to distinguish them.

7. [Lec 03 : Discourse - I](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109103152)
   Discourse changes the scale from one sentence to connected communication and shared context.
   Task: Add a preceding sentence that favours each interpretation. Explain what the context changes and what structural ambiguity remains.

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