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de Boer, B. (1999) Investigating the Emergence of Speech Sounds. In Dean, T., editor, IJCAI99, pages 364--369. San Francisco: CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
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Abstract
Thispaperpresentsasystemthatsimulatesthe
emergenceofrealisticvowelsystemsina
populationofagentsthattrytoimitateeach
otheraswellaspossible.Althoughnoneofthe
agentshasaglobalviewofthelanguage,and
noneoftheagentsdoesanexplicitoptimiz a­
tion,acoherentsystemofvowelsemergesthat
happenstobeoptimizedforacousticdistinc t­
iveness.
Theresultspresentedherefitinandconfirm
thetheoryofLucSteels[Steels1995,1997,
1998]thatviewslanguagesasacomplexd y­
namicsystemandtheoriginsoflanguageasthe
resultofself­organizationandculturalevol u­
tion.

1 Introduction Languageisconsideredtobeimportantfortheunde r­ standingofintelligence.Althoughanimalsareoften quitecapableofbehaviorthatcanbedescribedasada p­ tiveorintelligent,theyarenotcapable,withtheposs i­ bleexceptionofthehigherprimates,ofthemorea b­ stractintelligence(abstractreasoning,workingwith hierarchicalstructures,learningofarbitrarymappings) thatischaracteristicofhumans.Thismoreabstractkind ofintelligenceisofasymbolicnature,andtherefore associatedwithlanguage.Understandingthenatureand theoriginoflanguage isthereforeofcrucialimportance totheunderstandingofthenatureandoriginofhuman intell igence[Steels1995,1997,1998]. 1.1 Theoriginsoflanguage Somescholarshaveassumedthatthehumanfacultyfor languageisinnateandgeneticallydeterminedinavery specificway[ Chomsky1980 ;Pinker&Bloom1990].It isobviouslytruethathumanshaveauniquecapability forlearningandusinglanguage.Ifa bonobochimpa n­ zee(ourevolutionaryclosestrelative)israisedinthe same(linguistic)environmentasahumanchild,itwill onlylearnaveryrudimentarysetofwords,andno grammaticalstructure,whereasthehumanchildwill learnthefulllanguage.Therearealsoanumberoffe a­ turesofhumananatomy(loweredlarynx,veryaccurate controlofbreathing,accuratecontrolofthetongue)that canonlybeexplainedasadaptationstolanguage.Ho w­ ever,itisquestionablewhetherthehumanbrainis reallysospecificallyadaptedtolanguagethatitco n­ tainsalanguageorganandasetof``principlesandp a­ rameters''[ Chomsky1980].Althoughacoupleofar ...
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@inproceedings{deboer99investigatingThe,
  author={B. de Boer},
  title={Investigating the Emergence of Speech Sounds},
  year={1999},
  pages={364-369},
  address={San Francisco: CA},
  editor={Dean, T.},
  publisher={Morgan Kaufmann Publishers},
  booktitle={IJCAI99},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/deboer99investigatingThe.html}
}

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