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Modeling The Emergence Of Syllable Systems (1998)
Melissa A. Redford
, Chun Chi Chen, and
Risto Miikkulainen
In this paper we present an approach to modeling emergent syllable systems using simulated evolution of a vocabulary'' of words.'' The model is aimed at testing the general hypothesis that language-universal sound patterns emerge from selection pressures exerted on the system by the perceptual and articulatory constraints of language users. The model is able to distinguish between hypotheses about how specific, biologically-motivated constraints affect the sound structure of language. For example, it is shown that mandibular oscillation provides a strong constraint on the sequential organization of phonemes into words. Future work will explore the potential of other constraints that, with mandibular oscillation, will be sufficient to describe the emergence of syllable systems.
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In Morton Ann Gernsbacher and Sharon J. Derry, editors,
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
, 882-886, 1998. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Bibtex:
@InProceedings{redford:cogsci98, title={Modeling The Emergence Of Syllable Systems}, author={Melissa A. Redford and Chun Chi Chen and Risto Miikkulainen}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society}, editor={Morton Ann Gernsbacher and Sharon J. Derry}, publisher={Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum}, pages={882-886}, url="http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/?redford:cogsci98", year={1998} }
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Chun-Chi Chen
Undergraduate Alumni
Risto Miikkulainen
Faculty
risto [at] cs utexas edu
Melissa Redford
Postdoctoral Alumni
redford [at] cs utexas edu
Areas of Interest
Natural Language Processing (Cognitive)
Evolutionary Computation
Reinforcement Learning
Cognitive Science