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Abstract

This paper shows how a society of agents can self-organize a shared vocalization system that is discrete, combinatorial and has a form of primitive phonotactics, starting from holistic inarticulate vocalizations. The originality of the system is that: (1) it does not include any explicit pressure for communication; (2) agents do not possess capabilities of coordinated interactions, in particular they do not play language games; (3) agents possess no specific linguistic capacities; and (4) initially there exists no convention that agents can use. As a consequence, the system shows how a primitive speech code may bootstrap in the absence of a communication system between agents, i.e. before the appearance of language.

Keywords: Origins of speech, Self-organization, Evolution, Phonetics, Phonology, Combinatoriality

@article{oudeyer05combinatorialityAndPhonotactics,
  author={Pierre-Yves Oudeyer},
  title={The self-organization of combinatoriality and phonotactics in vocalization systems},
  journal={Connection Science},
  year={2005},
  month={December},
  volume={17},
  number={3-4},
  pages={325-341},
  doi={10.1080/09540090500217145},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/oudeyer05combinatorialityAndPhonotactics.html},
  keywords={Origins of speech, Self-organization, Evolution, Phonetics, Phonology, Combinatoriality}
}

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