"5148","The self-organization of combinatoriality and phonotactics in vocalization systems","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.","http://cogprints.org/5148/","Oudeyer, Dr. P-Y.","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Oudeyer, Dr. P-Y.</span>     (2005)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/5148/\"><em>The self-organization of combinatoriality and phonotactics in vocalization systems.</em></a>       [Journal (Paginated)]           ","","2005"