?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Self-Organization+of+Speech+Sounds&rft.creator=Oudeyer%2C+Pierre-Yves&rft.subject=Complexity+Theory&rft.subject=Speech&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.subject=Phonology&rft.description=The+speech+code+is+a+vehicle+of+language%3A+it+defines%0Aa+set+of+forms+used+by+a+community+to+carry+information.%0ASuch+a+code+is+necessary+to+support+the+linguistic%0Ainteractions+that+allow+humans+to+communicate.+%0AHow+then+may+a+speech+code+be+formed+prior+to+the+%0Aexistence+of+linguistic+interactions%3F%0AMoreover%2C+the+human+speech+code+is+discrete+and+compositional%2C%0Ashared+by+all+the+individuals+of+a+community+but+different%0Aacross+communities%2C+and+phoneme+inventories+are+characterized+by%0Astatistical+regularities.+How+can+a+speech+code+with+these+properties+form%3F%0A+%0AWe+try+to+approach+these+questions+in+the+paper%2C%0Ausing+the+%60%60methodology+of+the+artificial''.+We+%0Abuild+a+society+of+artificial+agents%2C+and+detail+a+mechanism+that%0Ashows+the+formation+of+a+discrete+speech+code+without+pre-supposing%0Athe+existence+of+linguistic+capacities+or+of+coordinated+interactions.%0AThe+mechanism+is+based+on+a+low-level+model+of%0Asensory-motor+interactions.+We+show+that+the+integration+of+certain+very+%0Asimple+and+non+language-specific+neural+devices+%0Aleads+to+the+formation+of+a+speech+code+that%0Ahas+properties+similar+to+the+human+speech+code.%0AThis+result+relies+on+the+self-organizing+properties+of+a+generic%0Acoupling+between+perception+and+production%0Awithin+agents%2C+and+on+the+interactions+between+agents.%0AThe+artificial+system+helps+us+to+develop+better+intuitions+on+how+speech%0Amight+have+appeared%2C+by+showing+how+self-organization%0Amight+have+helped+natural+selection+to+find+speech.%0A&rft.publisher=Elsevier&rft.date=2005&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4107%2F1%2FoudeyerJTB05.pdf&rft.identifier=++Oudeyer%2C+Pierre-Yves++(2005)+The+Self-Organization+of+Speech+Sounds.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4107%2F