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catalog abstract ""This book addresses the question of how the properties of human vowel systems can be explained. Though vowel systems of human languages are optimal for communicative purposes, it is not clear who is doing the optimization. If children learn a language, they learn to produce sounds that are as close as possible to those used by their parents and peers. The author argues that the optimization is the result of self-organization in a population of language users. Self-organization is the emergence of order on a global scale in a system where there are only local interactions. It is a phenomenon that appears in many natural systems from purely physical ones, such as crystals, to systems composed of living organisms, such as colonies of insects. Recent developments in linguistics indicate that self-organization might also play an important role in language."--BOOK JACKET.".
catalog contributor b12334754.
catalog created "2001.".
catalog date "2001".
catalog date "2001.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
catalog description ""This book addresses the question of how the properties of human vowel systems can be explained. Though vowel systems of human languages are optimal for communicative purposes, it is not clear who is doing the optimization. If children learn a language, they learn to produce sounds that are as close as possible to those used by their parents and peers. The author argues that the optimization is the result of self-organization in a population of language users. Self-organization is the emergence of order on a global scale in a system where there are only local interactions. It is a phenomenon that appears in many natural systems from purely physical ones, such as crystals, to systems composed of living organisms, such as colonies of insects. Recent developments in linguistics indicate that self-organization might also play an important role in language."--BOOK JACKET.".
catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Universal Tendencies of Human Sound Systems -- 2.1. Regularities of systems of speech sounds -- 2.2. Regularities of speech sound sequences -- 2.3. Explanations of regularities based on features -- 2.4. Stevens's quantal theory of speech -- 2.5. The distinctive region model -- 2.6. Predicting sound systems as a whole -- 2.7. How sound systems have become optimized -- 2.8. Glotin's AGORA model -- 2.9. Berrah's ESPECE model -- 2.10. How children learn -- 3. Self-Organization -- 3.1. Steels's work -- 3.2. Language as an open, complex dynamic system -- 3.3. Language as an adaptive system -- 3.4. Other mechanisms in the origins of language -- 3.5. Self-organization and understanding the origins of language -- 4. The Simulation -- 4.1. The use of computer simulations -- 4.2. Purpose of the simulation -- 4.3. The articulatory model -- 4.4. The perception model -- 4.5. The imitation game -- 5. Results -- 5.1. A first example -- 5.2. Analysis of simulation results -- 5.3. An articulatory view of the systems -- 5.4. Variable populations -- 5.5. Human vowel system universals and typology -- 5.6. Relation between systems that emerge from simulations and real systems -- 5.7. Conclusion -- 6. Simulated Evolution of Other Parts of Language -- 6.1. Modelling of syntax -- 6.2. Modelling of semantics -- 6.3. Modelling of language dynamics -- 6.4. Experiments with robots -- 6.5. Relation to the work described here -- 7. Implications for Other Parts of Language -- 7.1. Interpretation of results -- 7.2. Implications for universals of vowel systems -- 7.3. Self-organization and other aspects of language -- 7.4. Implications for more complex sounds -- 7.5. Relation between sounds and syntax.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-153) and index.".
catalog extent "xii, 168 p. :".
catalog identifier "0198299656 (acid-free paper)".
catalog identifier "0198299664 (pbk.)".
catalog isPartOf "Oxford linguistics".
catalog isPartOf "Studies in the evolution of language ; 1".
catalog issued "2001".
catalog issued "2001.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
catalog subject "415 21".
catalog subject "Language and languages Origin.".
catalog subject "Linguistic universals.".
catalog subject "P233 .D39 2001".
catalog subject "Typology (Linguistics)".
catalog subject "Universals (Linguistics)".
catalog subject "Vowels.".
catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Universal Tendencies of Human Sound Systems -- 2.1. Regularities of systems of speech sounds -- 2.2. Regularities of speech sound sequences -- 2.3. Explanations of regularities based on features -- 2.4. Stevens's quantal theory of speech -- 2.5. The distinctive region model -- 2.6. Predicting sound systems as a whole -- 2.7. How sound systems have become optimized -- 2.8. Glotin's AGORA model -- 2.9. Berrah's ESPECE model -- 2.10. How children learn -- 3. Self-Organization -- 3.1. Steels's work -- 3.2. Language as an open, complex dynamic system -- 3.3. Language as an adaptive system -- 3.4. Other mechanisms in the origins of language -- 3.5. Self-organization and understanding the origins of language -- 4. The Simulation -- 4.1. The use of computer simulations -- 4.2. Purpose of the simulation -- 4.3. The articulatory model -- 4.4. The perception model -- 4.5. The imitation game -- 5. Results -- 5.1. A first example -- 5.2. Analysis of simulation results -- 5.3. An articulatory view of the systems -- 5.4. Variable populations -- 5.5. Human vowel system universals and typology -- 5.6. Relation between systems that emerge from simulations and real systems -- 5.7. Conclusion -- 6. Simulated Evolution of Other Parts of Language -- 6.1. Modelling of syntax -- 6.2. Modelling of semantics -- 6.3. Modelling of language dynamics -- 6.4. Experiments with robots -- 6.5. Relation to the work described here -- 7. Implications for Other Parts of Language -- 7.1. Interpretation of results -- 7.2. Implications for universals of vowel systems -- 7.3. Self-organization and other aspects of language -- 7.4. Implications for more complex sounds -- 7.5. Relation between sounds and syntax.".
catalog title "The origins of vowel systems / Bart de Boer.".
catalog type "text".