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A Unied Model Of The Origins Of Phonemically Coded Syllable
Systems
Pierre-yves Oudeyer
Sony Computer Science Lab, Paris
e-mail : py@csl.sony.fr
Abstract Human sound systems are invariably phonemically coded, which means that there are parts of syl- lables that are re-used in other syllables. It is one of the most primitive compositional system in language. To explain this phenomenon, there ex- isted so far three kinds of approaches : \Chom- skyan"/cognitive innatism, morpho-perceptual in- natism and the more recent approach of \language as a complex cultural system which adapts under the pressure of eÆcient communication". We pro- posed in (Oudeyer 2002) a new hypothesis based on a low-level model of sensory-motor interactions, characterized by the absence of functional pressure and the use of very generic neural devices. This paper presents a uni ed model of the origins of syl- lable systems which does allow a comparison of the di erent hypothesis on the same ground. We show that our hypothesis is the only one to be suÆcient, and that all others are not necesary. Moreover, the model we present the rst that shows how a popula- tion of agents can build culturally a complex sound systems without the assumption that they already share a phonemic repertoire. What does explain phonemically coded syllable systems ? Human sound systems have very particular proper- ties. Perhaps the most basic is that they are phone- mically coded. This means that syllables are com- posed of re-usable parts. These are called phonemes. Thus, syllables of a language may look rather like la, li, na, ni, bla, bli, etc ... than like la, ze, fri, won, etc
.... This might seem unavoidable for us who have a phonetic writing alphabet, but in fact our vocal tract allows to produce syllable systems in which each syl- lable is holistically coded and has no parts which is also used in another syllable. Yet, as opposed to writing systems for which there exists both \pho- netic" coding and holistic/pic ...
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@inproceedings{oudeyercogsci2002,
  author={P-Y. Oudeyer},
  title={A Unified Model for the Origins of Phonemically Coded Syllable Systems},
  year={2002},
  editor={Bel B. and Marlien I.},
  publisher={Laurence Erlbaum Associates},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/oudeyercogsci2002.html}
}

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