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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.
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conference: ' 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior'
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creators_name:
  - family: Oudeyer
    given: Pierre-Yves
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
date: 2002
date_type: published
datestamp: 2003-03-12
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editors_name:
  - family: Hallam
    given: ' B. Hallam, D. Floreano, J. Hallam, G. Hayes, J-A. Meyer'
    honourific: ''
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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
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pagerange: 406-416
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publisher: MIT Press
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rev_number: 12
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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
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title: |-
  Phonemic Coding Might Result From
    Sensory-Motor Coupling Dynamics
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