Iterated learning and the evolution of language

S Kirby, T Griffiths, K Smith - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Iterated learning describes the process whereby an individual learns their behaviour by
exposure to another individual's behaviour, who themselves learnt it in the same way. It can …

[HTML][HTML] The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue: Review of the role of the motor system in speech perception

JI Skipper, JT Devlin, DR Lametti - Brain and language, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Does “the motor system” play “a role” in speech perception? If so, where, how, and when?
We conducted a systematic review that addresses these questions using both qualitative …

Cognitive developmental robotics: A survey

M Asada, K Hosoda, Y Kuniyoshi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive developmental robotics (CDR) aims to provide new understanding of how
human's higher cognitive functions develop by means of a synthetic approach that …

An experimental study of the emergence of human communication systems

B Galantucci - Cognitive science, 2005‏ - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of human communication systems is typically investigated via 2 approaches
with complementary strengths and weaknesses: naturalistic studies and computer …

[کتاب][B] Phonetic analysis of speech corpora

J Harrington - 2010‏ - books.google.com
An accessible introduction to the phonetic analysis of speech corpora, this workbook-style
text provides an extensive set of exercises to help readers develop the necessary skills to …

Language acquisition meets language evolution

N Chater, MH Christiansen - Cognitive science, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which
linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain …

A theoretical synopsis of Evolutionary Phonology

J Blevins - Theoretical linguistics, 2006‏ - degruyter.com
An overview of Evolutionary Phonology 1.1. Explaining sound patterns Phonology is the
study of sound patterns of the world's languages. In all spoken languages, we find sound …

Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution

K Smith, S Kirby - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2008‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human language is unique among the communication systems of the natural world: it is
socially learned and, as a consequence of its recursively compositional structure, offers …

Self-organization of early vocal development in infants and machines: the role of intrinsic motivation

C Moulin-Frier, SM Nguyen, PY Oudeyer - Frontiers in psychology, 2014‏ - frontiersin.org
We bridge the gap between two issues in infant development: vocal development and
intrinsic motivation. We propose and experimentally test the hypothesis that general …

Collective predictive coding hypothesis: Symbol emergence as decentralized bayesian inference

T Taniguchi - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Understanding the emergence of symbol systems, especially language, requires the
construction of a computational model that reproduces both the developmental learning …