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Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech

Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech - Studies in the Evolution of Language

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Publisher's Synopsis

Speech is the principal supporting medium of language. In this book Pierre-Yves Oudeyer considers how spoken language first emerged. He presents an original and integrated view of the interactions between self-organization and natural selection, reformulates questions about the origins of speech, and puts forward what at first sight appears to be a startling proposal - that speech can be spontaneously generated by the coupling of evolutionarily simple neural structures connecting perception and production. He explores this hypothesis by constructing a computational system to model the effects of linking auditory and vocal motor neural nets. He shows that a population of agents which used holistic and unarticulated vocalizations at the outset are inexorably led to a state in which their vocalizations have become discrete, combinatorial, and categorized in the same way by all group members. Furthermore, the simple syntactic rules that have emerged to regulate the combinations of sounds exhibit the fundamental properties of modern human speech systems. This original and fascinating account will interest all those interested in the evolution of speech.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199289158
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 401.9
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 296g
Height: 157mm
Width: 234mm
Spine width: 15mm