?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Phonemic+Coding+Might+Result+From%0A++Sensory-Motor+Coupling+Dynamics&rft.creator=Oudeyer%2C+Pierre-Yves&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Dynamical+Systems&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Speech&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.subject=Neurolinguistics&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Phonology&rft.description=Human+sound+systems+are+invariably+phonemically+coded.+Furthermore%2C%0Aphoneme+inventories+follow+very+particular+tendancies.+To+explain+%0Athese+phenomena%2C+there+existed+so+far+three+kinds+of+approaches+%3A%0A%60%60Chomskyan''%2Fcognitive+innatism%2C+morpho-perceptual+innatism+%0Aand+the+more+recent+approach+of+%60%60language+as+a+complex+cultural+system%0Awhich+adapts+under+the+pressure+of+efficient+communication''.+%0AThe+two+first+approaches+are+clearly+not+satisfying%2C+while%0Athe+third%2C+even+if+much+more+convincing%2C+%0Amakes+a+lot+of+speculative+assumptions+and+did+not%0Areally+bring+answers+to+the+question+of+phonemic+coding.+We+propose%0Ahere+a+new+hypothesis+based+on+a+low-level+model+of%0Asensory-motor+interactions.+We+show+that+certain+very+%0Asimple+and+non+language-specific+neural+devices+%0Aallow+a+population+of+agents+to+build+signalling+systems%0Awithout+any+functional+pressure.+Moreover%2C+these+systems%0Aare+phonemically+coded.+Using+a+realistic+vowel+articulatory%0Asynthesizer%2C+we+show+that+the+inventories+of+vowels+%0Ahave+striking+similarities+with+human+vowel+systems.&rft.publisher=MIT+Press&rft.contributor=Hallam%2C++B.+Hallam%2C+D.+Floreano%2C+J.+Hallam%2C+G.+Hayes%2C+J-A.+Meyer&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2658%2F1%2Fsab02.pdf&rft.identifier=++Oudeyer%2C+Pierre-Yves++(2002)+Phonemic+Coding+Might+Result+From+Sensory-Motor+Coupling+Dynamics.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2658%2F