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Presentation |
2010-12-20 17:45
The Digital Characteristics of Vocal Language
-- The Automata Generated by Digital Signals and Coding Mechanisms -- Kimiaki Tokumaru (System Engineer) NLC2010-20 SP2010-93 |
Abstract |
(in Japanese) |
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Having visited Cave No.3 of the Klasies River Mouth Caves, the oldest modern human site in the world with the confirmed human residence between 130,000 - 60,000 BP, along the Indian Ocean coast of Eastern Cape Province of Republic of South Africa in 2007, the author started to contemplate on the origin and mechanism of language.[1] Inside-cave environments are extremely safe, quiet and dark which makes residents sound sensitive, and the cave consists of acoustic shelter where one can freely make sound without any danger. It is plausible that language and modern human were born inside cave.
Through interdisciplinary researches on linguistics, acoustic engineering, communication engineering, psychology, anthropology/primatology, neurophysiology, logistics, molecular biology and information theory, the author came to a hypothesis that the unique fundamental difference between human and non-human-animals lies in digitalization of vocal communications, i.e. language.
However, he could not find out any appropriate definition for 'digital'. Therefore, he went through the Information Theory classics such as Shannon, Wiener and von Neumann in order to explore and formulate an objective, necessary and sufficient definition for 'digital'. It became clear that the 'digital' concept is wider and deeper than expected, and that it seems to be the principle which enables 'information networks' and 'self-reproducing automata'.
This presentation is a summary of more than 20 presentations made in 2010 at relevant SIGs in IPSJ, IEICE and JSAI. |
Keyword |
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(in English) |
Origin of Humans / Origin of Language / Digital Communications / Entropic Gain / Automata / Information Network / Generative Grammar / Concept System/Operation |
Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 110, no. 357, SP2010-93, pp. 61-66, Dec. 2010. |
Paper # |
SP2010-93 |
Date of Issue |
2010-12-13 (NLC, SP) |
ISSN |
Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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Conference Information |
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NLC SP |
Conference Date |
2010-12-20 - 2010-12-21 |
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National Olympics Memorial Youth Center |
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Information Access, Speech and Language Processing, etc. |
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2010-12-NLC-SP |
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Japanese |
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The Digital Characteristics of Vocal Language |
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The Automata Generated by Digital Signals and Coding Mechanisms |
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Origin of Humans |
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Origin of Language |
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Digital Communications |
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Entropic Gain |
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Automata |
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Information Network |
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Generative Grammar |
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Concept System/Operation |
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Kimiaki Tokumaru |
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Date Time |
2010-12-20 17:45:00 |
Presentation Time |
25 minutes |
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SP |
Paper # |
NLC2010-20, SP2010-93 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.110 |
Number (no) |
no.356(NLC), no.357(SP) |
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pp.61-66 |
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6 |
Date of Issue |
2010-12-13 (NLC, SP) |
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