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--- abstract: |- Human sound systems are invariably phonemically coded. Furthermore, phoneme inventories follow very particular tendancies. To explain these phenomena, there existed so far three kinds of approaches : ``Chomskyan''/cognitive innatism, morpho-perceptual innatism and the more recent approach of ``language as a complex cultural system which adapts under the pressure of efficient communication''. The two first approaches are clearly not satisfying, while the third, even if much more convincing, makes a lot of speculative assumptions and did not really bring answers to the question of phonemic coding. We propose here a new hypothesis based on a low-level model of sensory-motor interactions. We show that certain very simple and non language-specific neural devices allow a population of agents to build signalling systems without any functional pressure. Moreover, these systems are phonemically coded. Using a realistic vowel articulatory synthesizer, we show that the inventories of vowels have striking similarities with human vowel systems. altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ' 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior' confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Oudeyer given: Pierre-Yves honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2002 date_type: published datestamp: 2003-03-12 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/26/58 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Hallam given: ' B. Hallam, D. Floreano, J. Hallam, G. Hayes, J-A. Meyer' honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2658 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/2658/1/sab02.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: | speech, phonemic coding, particulate speech, agents, self-organisation, regularities, discreteness, digitalness shared sound system \sep production \sep perception lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:07 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 406-416 pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: MIT Press refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:46:10 subjects: - comp-sci-lang - comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys - ling-comput - comp-neuro-sci - psy-ling - comp-sci-neural-nets - comp-sci-speech - bio-theory - neuro-ling - comp-sci-art-intel - ling-phono succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: |- Phonemic Coding Might Result From Sensory-Motor Coupling Dynamics type: confpaper userid: 3681 volume: ~