Self-organisation in Vowel Systems (1999) [67 citations — 6 self]
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author = {Bart de Boer and Laboratorium Voor Artificiële Intelligentie and Table Of and Figures Ix},
title = {Self-organisation in Vowel Systems},
year = {1999}
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XIII SAMENVATTING XV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XVII 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 The Aims 1 1.2 The Contributions 3 1.3 The Background 4 1.4 The Model 4 1.5 The Results 5 1.6 How to Read the Thesis 6 2. THE THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 9 2.1 Universal Tendencies of Human Sound Systems 9 2.1.1 Regularities of systems of speech sounds. 10 2.1.2 Regularities of speech sound sequences. 11 2.1.3 Explanations of regularities based on features. 11 2.1.4 Stevens' quantal theory of speech. 12 2.1.5 Carr' s distinctive region model. 12 2.1.6 Predicting sound systems as a whole. 13 2.1.7 How sound systems have become optimised. 14 2.1.8 Glotin' s AGORA model. 15 2.1.9 Berrah' s ESPECE model. 15 2.2 Steels' Work 16 2.2.1 Language as an open, complex dynamic system. 17 2.2.2 Language as an adaptive system. 18 2.2.3 Mechanisms of language origins. 18 2.2.4 Arguments against innateness of language. 20 2.3 The Use of Computer Simulations 21 iv 2.4 The Research Questions 22 3. THE SIMULATION 23 3.1 The History of the Simul...
