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Self-organization in the Evolution of Speech

Author : Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019928914X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Self-organization in the Evolution of Speech by : Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Download or read book Self-organization in the Evolution of Speech written by Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ofspeech, 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 production. He explores this hypothesis by constructing a computational system to modelthe effects of linking auditory and vocal motor neural nets. He shows that a population of agents which used holistic and unarticulated vocalizations at the outset are inexorably led to a state in which their vocalizations have become discrete, combinatorial, and categorized in the same way by allgroup members. Furthermore, the simple syntactic rules that have emerged to regulate the combinations of sounds exhibit the fundamental properties of modern human speech systems.This original and fascinating account will interest all those interested in the evolution of speech.

Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech

Author : Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191516104
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech by : Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Download or read book Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech written by Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 production. He explores this hypothesis by constructing a computational system to model the effects of linking auditory and vocal motor neural nets. He shows that a population of agents which used holistic and unarticulated vocalizations at the outset are inexorably led to a state in which their vocalizations have become discrete, combinatorial, and categorized in the same way by all group members. Furthermore, the simple syntactic rules that have emerged to regulate the combinations of sounds exhibit the fundamental properties of modern human speech systems. This original and fascinating account will interest all those interested in the evolution of speech.

Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 6th International Conference (Evolang6)

Author : Angelo Cangelosi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814478628
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Evolution Of Language, The - Proceedings Of The 6th International Conference (Evolang6) written by Angelo Cangelosi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG6). The biennial EVOLANG conference focuses on the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, artificial life, biology, cognitive science, computer science, ethology, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology, and psychology.The collection presents the latest theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution, and includes contributions from the leading scientists in the field, including T Fitch, V Gallese, S Mithen, D Parisi, A Piazza & L Cavali Sforza, R Seyfarth & D Cheney, L Steels, L Talmy and M Tomasello.

Origins

Author : Karl H. Pribram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317729234
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Origins written by Karl H. Pribram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of the second Appalachian conference on neurodynamics, this volume focuses on the problem of "order," its origins, evolution, and future. Central to this concern lies our understanding of time. Both classical and quantum physics have developed their conceptions within a framework of time symmetry. Divided into four major sections, this book: * provides refreshingly new approaches to the problem of the evolution of order, indicating the directions that need to be taken in subsequent conferences which will address learning and memory more directly; * addresses the issue of how information becomes transmitted in the nervous system; * shows how patterns are constructed at the synaptodendritic level of processing and how such pattern construction relates to image processing; and * deals with the control operations which operate on image processing to construct entities such as visual and auditory objects such as phonemes. The aim of the conference was to bring together professionals to exchange ideas -- some were fairly worked out; others were in their infancy. As a result, one of the most valuable aspects of the conference is that it fostered lasting interactive relationships among these leading researchers.

The Language Phenomenon

Author : P.-M. Binder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642360866
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book The Language Phenomenon written by P.-M. Binder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the relation between language and genes, the origins of language, self-organization, and language competition and death. The book as a whole will help to show how processes at different scales affect each other, thus presenting language as a dynamic, complex and profoundly human phenomenon.

Language Grounding in Robots

Author : Luc Steels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146143064X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Language Grounding in Robots written by Luc Steels and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading international experts, this volume presents contributions establishing the feasibility of human language-like communication with robots. The book explores the use of language games for structuring situated dialogues in which contextualized language communication and language acquisition can take place. Within the text are integrated experiments demonstrating the extensive research which targets artificial language evolution. Language Grounding in Robots uses the design layers necessary to create a fully operational communicating robot as a framework for the text, focusing on the following areas: Embodiment; Behavior; Perception and Action; Conceptualization; Language Processing; Whole Systems Experiments. This book serves as an excellent reference for researchers interested in further study of artificial language evolution.

The Evolution of Language

Author : W. Tecumseh Fitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052185993X
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis The Evolution of Language by : W. Tecumseh Fitch

Download or read book The Evolution of Language written by W. Tecumseh Fitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the most important insights from the vast amount of literature on the origin of language.

The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Author : Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191090425
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics by : Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics written by Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race. Yet it remains a mysterious process. The science of psycholinguistics attempts to uncover the mechanisms and representations underlying human language. This interdisciplinary field has seen massive developments over the last decades, with a broad expansion of the research base, and the incorporation of new experimental techniques such as brain imaging and computational modelling. The result is that real progress is being made in the understanding of the key components of language in the mind. This new and expanded edition of The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics brings together the views of over 80 experts in various domains of psycholinguistic research, offering a comprehensive and authoritative review of the field. With contributions from the fields of psychology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, attention, genetics, development, and neuropsychology divided into five themed sections, this new edition of The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics is unparalleled in its breadth of coverage. The comprehensive nature of this book coupled with the accessibility of the short chapter format makes this handbook essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of psychology, linguistics and neuroscience.

Language, Cognition, and Computational Models

Author : Thierry Poibeau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110716222X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Language, Cognition, and Computational Models written by Thierry Poibeau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses recent computational models to explore issues related to language and cognition.

The Evolution of Language

Author : Andrew D. M. Smith
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812776125
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Language written by Andrew D. M. Smith and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume contains the latest results from the field of particle physics. The contributions cover the current status of all the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, the implications of the LHC for cosmology, and the search for dark matter and nuclear astrophysics. It also includes work on the current status of the future International Linear Collider (ILC).

Approaches to the Evolution of Language

Author : James R. Hurford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639644
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to the Evolution of Language written by James R. Hurford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory, without abandoning the vast gains in phonology and syntax achieved by formal linguistics over the past forty years. The contributors, linguists, psychologists, and paleoanthropologists, address such questions as: what is language as a category of behavior; is it an instrument of thought or of communication; what do individuals know when they know a language; what cognitive, perceptual, and motor capacities must they have to speak, hear, and understand a language? For the past two centuries, scientists have tended to see language function as largely concerned with the exchange of practical information. By contrast, this volume takes as its starting point the view of human intelligence as social, and of language as a device for forming alliances, in exploring the origins of the sound patterns and formal structures that characterize language.

Advances in Artificial Life

Author : Mathieu Capcarrere
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540288481
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Artificial Life by : Mathieu Capcarrere

Download or read book Advances in Artificial Life written by Mathieu Capcarrere and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-08-29 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TheArti?cialLifetermappearedmorethan20yearsagoinasmallcornerofNew Mexico, USA. Since then the area has developed dramatically, many researchers joining enthusiastically and research groups sprouting everywhere. This frenetic activity led to the emergence of several strands that are now established ?elds in themselves. We are now reaching a stage that one may describe as maturer: with more rigour, more benchmarks, more results, more stringent acceptance criteria, more applications, in brief, more sound science. This, which is the n- ural path of all new areas, comes at a price, however. A certain enthusiasm, a certain adventurousness from the early years is fading and may have been lost on the way. The ?eld has become more reasonable. To counterbalance this and to encourage lively discussions, a conceptual track, where papers were judged on criteria like importance and/or novelty of the concepts proposed rather than the experimental/theoretical results, has been introduced this year. A conference on a theme as broad as Arti?cial Life is bound to be very - verse,but a few tendencies emerged. First, ?elds like ‘Robotics and Autonomous Agents’ or ‘Evolutionary Computation’ are still extremely active and keep on bringing a wealth of results to the A-Life community. Even there, however, new tendencies appear, like collective robotics, and more speci?cally self-assembling robotics, which represent now a large subsection. Second, new areas appear.

The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution

Author : Maggie Tallerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199541116
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution written by Maggie Tallerman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field, including work in animal behaviour; anatomy, genetics and neurology; the prehistory of language; the development of our uniquely linguistic species; and language creation, transmission, and change.

Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition

Author : Ted Briscoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139433369
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition written by Ted Briscoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over generations. Written by an international team of experts, the volume proceeds from the basis that we can not only address the language faculty per se within the framework of evolutionary theory, but also the origins and subsequent development of languages themselves; languages evolve via cultural rather than biological transmission on a historical rather than genetic timescale. The book is distinctive in utilizing computational simulation and modelling to help ensure the theories constructed are complete and precise. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the book covers the why and how of specific syntactic universals; the nature of syntactic change; the language-learning mechanisms required to acquire an existing linguistic system accurately and to impose further structure on an emerging system; and the evolution of language(s) in relation to this learning mechanism.

Complexity in Language

Author : Salikoko S. Mufwene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316942996
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Complexity in Language written by Salikoko S. Mufwene and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recently, this issue has been complemented with the view that languages are complex adaptive systems, in which emergence and self-organization play major roles. However, few students of the phenomenon have gone beyond the basic assessment of the number of units and rules in a language (what has been characterized as 'bit complexity') or shown some familiarity with the science of complexity. This book reveals how much can be learned by overcoming these limitations, especially by adopting developmental and evolutionary perspectives. The contributors include specialists of language acquisition, evolution and ecology, grammaticization, phonology, and modeling, all of whom approach languages as dynamical, emergent, and adaptive complex systems.

Language Origins

Author : Maggie Tallerman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191557439
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Language Origins written by Maggie Tallerman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-05-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how it relates to primate communication; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. The chapters are written from the perspective of the latest work in linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, and reflect the idea that various cognitive, physical, neurological, social, and cultural prerequisites led to the development of full human language. Some of these evolutionary changes were preadaptations for language, while others were adaptive changes allowing the development of particular linguistic characteristics. The authors consider a broad spectrum of ideas about the conditions that led to the evolution of protolanguage and full language. Some examine changes that occurred in the course of evolution to Homo sapiens; others consider how languages themselves have adapted by evolving to be learnable. Some chapters look at the workings of the brain, and others deploy sophisticated computer simulations that model such aspects as the emergence of speech sounds and the development of grammar. All make use of the latest methods and theories to probe into the origins and subsequent development of the only species that has language. The book will interest a wide range of linguists, cognitive scientists, biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and experts in artificial intelligence, as well as all those fascinated by issues, puzzles, and problems raised by the evolution of language.

The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory

Author : S.J. Hannahs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317382129
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory written by S.J. Hannahs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory provides a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary approaches to phonology. Phonology is frequently defined as the systematic organisation of the sounds of human language. For some, this includes aspects of both the surface phonetics together with systematic structural properties of the sound system; for others, phonology is seen as distinct from, and autonomous from, phonetics. The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory surveys the differing ways in which phonology is viewed, with a focus on current approaches to phonology. Divided into two parts, this handbook: covers major conceptual frameworks within phonology, including: rule-based phonology; Optimality Theory; Government Phonology; Dependency Phonology; and connectionist approaches to generative phonology; explores the central issue of the relationship between phonetics and phonology; features 23 chapters written by leading academics from around the world. The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory is an authoritative survey of this key field in linguistics, and is essential reading for students studying phonology.