Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech
@inproceedings{Oudeyer2006SelfOrganizationIT, title={Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech}, author={Pierre-Yves Oudeyer}, booktitle={Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language}, year={2006} }
Speech is the principal supporting medium of language. In this book Pierre-Yves Oudeyer considers how spoken language 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…
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