Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech

• The first book to present a detailed computational model of the origins of complex speech sounds
• Unites insights from evolution, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and speech science
• Presents an original view of the interactions between self-organization and natural selection
• Written in an accessible way with minimum recourse to jargon

Readership: Students of language evolution at graduate level and above, including linguists, phoneticians, biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, ethologists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, specialists in artificial intelligence, and computer scientists.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris

1: The Self-Organization Revolution in Science
2: The Human Speech Code
3: Self-Organization and Evolution
4: Existing Theories
5: Artificial Systems as Research Tools for Natural Sciences
6: The Artificial System
7: Learning Perceptuo-Motor Correspondences
8: Strong Combinatoriality and Phonotactics
9: New Scenarios
10: Constructing for Understanding
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Index