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This paper shows that realistic and coherent vowel systems can emerge from scratch in a population of agents that imitate each other under human-like constraints of production and perception. The simulation is extended so that populations can change; old agents can be removed, and new agents can be added. In these circumstances vowel systems can also emerge and be preserved. It is shown that sometimes an age structure in the population can improve preservation of the vowel systems.
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de Boer, B., Vogt, P. (1999). Emergence of Speech Sounds in Changing Populations. In: Floreano, D., Nicoud, JD., Mondada, F. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48304-7_87
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