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Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech

Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech

Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves
Hurford, James R.

Paperback

Series: Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language, Book 6

General ReferenceLinguisticsEvolution

ISBN10: 0199289158
ISBN13: 9780199289158
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 1 2006
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech. He puts forward the startling proposal that speech can be spontaneously generated by the coupling of evolutionarily simple neural structures connecting perception and production. He tests this hypothesis through a computational system and shows that the linking of auditory and vocal motor neural nets produces syntactic rules that exhibit the fundamental properties of modern human speech systems. This fascinating account will interest all those interested in the evolution of speech.

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