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Self-organization in the evolution of speech
2006
Overview
Speech is the principal supporting medium of language. This book considers how spoken language first emerged. It gives 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. It explores this hypothesis by constructing a computational system to model the effects of linking auditory and vocal motor neural nets. It demonstrates that a population of agents which used holistic and unarticulated vocalizations at the outset is 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.
Publisher
Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject
ISBN
9780199289158, 9780199289141, 0199289158, 019928914X
