Self-organisation in Vowel Systems
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Evolution and self-organisation in vowel systems'
This paper describes computer simulations that investigate the role of selforganisation in explaining the universals of human vowel systems. It has been observed that human vowel systems show remarkable regularities, and that these regularities optimise acoustic distinctiveness and are therefore adaptive for good communication. Traditionally, universals have been explained as the result of inna...
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