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The Cultural Evolution of Syntactic Constraints in Phonology. (2000) [6 citations — 3 self]

by Luc Steels ,  Pierre-yves Oudeyer
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Life
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Abstract:

The paper reports on an experiment in which a group of autonomous agents self-organises through cultural evolution constraints on the combination of the individual sounds (phonemes) in their repertoires. We use a selectionist approach whereby a repertoire evolves by mutations of patterns, constrained by functional pressures from perception and production and the need to conform to the group.

Citations

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1 The Arti Life Route to Arti Intelligence. Building Embodied Situated Agents. Lawrence Erlbaum – Steels, Brooks - 1995
1 Experiments in emergent phonetics, Rapport de Stage de 2eme annee de magistere informatique et modelisation, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon – Oudeyer - 1999