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<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "The Self-Organization of Speech Sounds"^^ . "The speech code is a vehicle of language: it defines\na set of forms used by a community to carry information.\nSuch a code is necessary to support the linguistic\ninteractions that allow humans to communicate. \nHow then may a speech code be formed prior to the \nexistence of linguistic interactions?\nMoreover, the human speech code is discrete and compositional,\nshared by all the individuals of a community but different\nacross communities, and phoneme inventories are characterized by\nstatistical regularities. How can a speech code with these properties form?\n \nWe try to approach these questions in the paper,\nusing the ``methodology of the artificial''. We \nbuild a society of artificial agents, and detail a mechanism that\nshows the formation of a discrete speech code without pre-supposing\nthe existence of linguistic capacities or of coordinated interactions.\nThe mechanism is based on a low-level model of\nsensory-motor interactions. We show that the integration of certain very \nsimple and non language-specific neural devices \nleads to the formation of a speech code that\nhas properties similar to the human speech code.\nThis result relies on the self-organizing properties of a generic\ncoupling between perception and production\nwithin agents, and on the interactions between agents.\nThe artificial system helps us to develop better intuitions on how speech\nmight have appeared, by showing how self-organization\nmight have helped natural selection to find speech.\n"^^ . "2005" . . "233" . "3" . . "Elsevier"^^ . . . "Journal of Theoretical Biology"^^ . . . . . . . . "Pierre-Yves"^^ . "Oudeyer"^^ . "Pierre-Yves Oudeyer"^^ . . . . . . "The Self-Organization of Speech Sounds (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . . . . "oudeyerJTB05.pdf"^^ . . . "The Self-Organization of Speech Sounds (Image (PNG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.png"^^ . . . "The Self-Organization of Speech Sounds (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #4107 \n\nThe Self-Organization of Speech Sounds\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Complexity Theory" . . . "Speech" . . . "Theoretical Biology" . . . "Phonology" . .