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--- abstract: |- This paper shows how a society of agents can self-organize a shared vocalization system that is discrete, combinatorial and has a form of primitive phonotactics, starting from holistic inarticulate vocalizations. The originality of the system is that: (1) it does not include any explicit pressure for communication; (2) agents do not possess capabilities of coordinated interactions, in particular they do not play language games; (3) agents possess no specific linguistic capacities; and (4) initially there exists no convention that agents can use. As a consequence, the system shows how a primitive speech code may bootstrap in the absence of a communication system between agents, i.e. before the appearance of language. altloc: - http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py/connectionScience.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Oudeyer given: P-Y. honourific: Dr. lineage: '' date: 2005 date_type: published datestamp: 2006-09-17 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/51/48 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 5148 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/5148/1/connectionScience.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: Origins of speech; Self-organization; Evolution; Phonetics; Phonology; Combinatoriality lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:36 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 3-4 pagerange: 325-341 pubdom: FALSE publication: ' Connection Science' publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- J. 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