title: The self-organization of combinatoriality and phonotactics in vocalization systems creator: Oudeyer, Dr. P-Y. subject: Neural Modelling subject: Phonology description: 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. date: 2005 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/5148/1/connectionScience.pdf identifier: Oudeyer, Dr. P-Y. (2005) The self-organization of combinatoriality and phonotactics in vocalization systems. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/5148/