ISBN details
- ISBN 10: 0199289158
- ISBN 13: 9780199289158
Overview
"Speech is the principal supporting medium of language. In this book Pierre-Yves Oudeyer considers how it first emerged. He presents an original and integrated view of the interactions between self-organization and natural selection, reformulates questions about the origins of speech, and puts forward what at first sight appears to be a startling proposal - that speech can be spontaneously generated by the coupling of evolutionarily simple neural structures connecting perception and production. He explores this hypothesis by constructing a computational system to model the effects of linking auditory and vocal neural nets. He shows that a population of agents which used holistic and unarticulated vocalizations at the outset are inexorably led to a state in which their vocalizations have become discrete, combinatorial, and categorized in the same way by all the group members. Furthermore, the simple syntactic rules that have emerged to regulate the combinations of sounds exhibit the fundamental properties of modern human speech systems."--BOOK JACKET.Other Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Language: eng English
- Format: print
- Dimensions: xiv, 177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Pages: 177
- Date Published: 2006
- Authors: Oudeyer, Pierre-yves.