Research Catalog

Title

Self-organization in the evolution of speech / Pierre-Yves Oudeyer ; translated by James R. Hurford.

Author

Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

xiv, 177 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Speech is the principal supporting medium of language. In this book Pierre-Yves Oudeyer considers how it 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 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 the 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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

• [Oxford linguistics]
• Studies in the evolution of language ; 6

Uniform Title

• Oxford linguistics.
• Studies in the evolution of language ; 6.

Subject

• Language and languages > Origin
• Speech
• Self-organizing systems
• Speech
• speech (communication function)
• 17.12 origins of language
• Language and languages > Origin
• Self-organizing systems
• Gesprochene Sprache
• Selbst organisierendes System
• Selbstorganisation
• Sprache
• Sprachentwicklung
• Sprachursprung
• Evolution
• Evolution

Note

• Series title from jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-161) and index.

Contents

The Self-Organization Revolution in Science -- The Human Speech Code -- Self-Organization and Evolution -- Existing Theories -- Artificial Systems as Research Tools for Natural Sciences -- The Artificial System -- Learning Perceptuo-Motor Correspondences -- Strong Combinatoriality and Phonotactics -- New Scenarios -- Constructing for Understanding.

ISBN

• 9780199289141
• 019928914X
• 9780199289158
• 0199289158

LCCN

• 2006296184
• 9780199289141
• 9780199289158

OCLC

• ocm65203001
• 65203001
• SCSB-8809817

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library