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</tt><span style="">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>I am pleased to
announce you the publication of my book :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006) </span><span
lang="FR"><a href="http://www.csl.sony.fr/%7Epy/book.htm"><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech</span></a></span><span
style="">, Studies in the Evolution of Language, </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span
style="">Oxford</span></st1:placename><span style=""> </span><st1:placetype><span
style="">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="">
Press. </span><span lang="FR">(Translation by James R. Hurford).<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Keywords: self-organization,
cultural and biological evolution, phonetics, sensori-motor coupling,
neural networks, agent-based modeling<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>This
book studies the interactions between self-organization and natural
selection in the origins of combinatorial speech sounds. In particular,
it aims
to show how concepts coming from complex systems sciences and how
computational
modeling tools involving neural networks and agents can help formulate
new
theories about the origins of culturally shared speech codes. It also
includes
detailed discussions about the epistemological foundations of
computational
modeling in human sciences. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>More
information, including a sample chapter, is available on the web
page: <o:p></o:p><br>
<a href="http://www.csl.sony.fr/%7Epy/book.htm">http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py/book.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><o:p></o:p>Best
regards,<o:p></o:p><br>
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer<o:p></o:p><br>
Sony CSL </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="">Paris</span></st1:place></st1:city><span
style=""><o:p></o:p><br>
<a href="http://www.csl.sony.fr/%7Epy">http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py</a></span></p>
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