num_pages: 177
description: Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech. He puts forward the startling proposal that speech can be spontaneously generated by the coupling of evolutionarily simple neural structures connectingperception and production. He tests this hypothesis through a computational system and shows that the linking of auditory and vocal motor neural nets produces syntactic rules that exhibit the fundamental properties of modern human speech systems. This fascinating account will interest all thoseinterested in the evolution of speech.
language: English
title: Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech
titlecomplete: Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech (Studies in the Evolution of Language, 6)
genres: Science, Language
ratings_count: 5
series: Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language
publisher: Oxford University Press