Publications

2012

• B.G. de Boer (2012). Loss of air sacs improved hominin speech abilities. Journal of Human Evolution, 62(1), 1-6.
• B. de Boer & T. Verhoef (2012). Language dynamics in structured form and meaning spaces. Advances in Complex Systems, 15(3), 1150021-1-1150021-20.
• T. Verhoef, B.G. de Boer & S. Kirby (2012). Holistic or synthetic protolanguage: Evidence from iterated learning of whistled signals. In T..C. Scott-Phillips, M. Tamariz, E..A. Cartmill & J..R. Hurford (Eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the 9th international conference (evolang9) (pp. 368-375). Hackensack NJ: World Scientific.

2011

• B. de Boer (2011). Modeling evolution of speech: comment on "Modeling the cultural evolution of language" by Luc Steels. Physics of life reviews, 8(4), 361-362.
• G. Kootstra, B. de Boer & L.R.B. Schomaker (2011). Predicting eye fixations on complex visual stimuli using local symmetry. Cognitive computation, 3(1), 223-240.
• T. Verhoef & B. de Boer (2011). Cultural emergence of feature economy in an artificial whistled language. In The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: Hong Kong, China, August 17-21, 2011: congress proceedings (pp. 2066-2069). Hong Kong: Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong.
• B. de Boer (2011). First formant difference for /i/ and /u/: a cross-linguistic study and an explanation. Journal of Phonetics, 39(1), 110-114.

2010

• B. de Boer (2010). Modelling vocal anatomy's significant effect on speech. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 8(4), 351-366.
• B. de Boer & W. T. Fitch (2010). Computer models of vocal tract evolution: an overview and critique. Adaptive Behavior, 18(1), 36-47.
• P. Vogt & B. de Boer (2010). Editorial: Language evolution: computer models for empirical data. Adaptive Behavior, 18(1), 5-11.
• B. de Boer & W. Zuidema (2010). Multi-agent simulations of the evolution of combinatorial phonology. Adaptive Behavior, 18(2), 141-154.
• B. de Boer (2010). Investigating the acoustic effect of the descended larynx with articulatory models. Journal of Phonetics, 38(4), 679-686.
• T. Verhoef & B. de Boer (2010). The critical period and preservation of emerged vowel systems. In A.D.M. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de Boer & K. Smith (Eds.), The evolution of language: proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8), Utrecht, Netherlands, 14-17 April 2010 (pp. 509-510). Singapore: World Scientific.
• B. de Boer (2010). The perceptual effect of air sacs. In A.D.M. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de Boer & K Smith (Eds.), The evolution of language: proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8), Utrecht, Netherlands, 14-17 April 2010 (pp. 395-396). Singapore: World Scientific.

2009

• G. Kootstra & B. de Boer (2009). Tackling the premature convergence problem in Monte-Carlo localization. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 57(11), 1107-1118.
• B. de Boer (2009). Acoustic analysis of primate air sacs and their effect on vocalization. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(6), 3329-3343.
• W. Zuidema & B. de Boer (2009). The evolution of combinatorial phonology. Journal of Phonetics, 37(2), 125-140.
• B. de Boer (2009). Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution). In R. Botha & C. Knight (Eds.), The prehistory of language Vol. 11. Studies in the evolution of language (pp. 255-265). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008

• B. de Boer (2008). The joy of sacs. In A.D.M. Smith, K. Smith & R. Ferrer i Cancho (Eds.), The evolution of language : proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain, 12-15 March 2008 (pp. 215-216). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
• G. Kootstra, A. Nederveen & B. de Boer (2008). Paying attention to symmetry. In M. Everingham, C.J. Needham & R. Fraile (Eds.), Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2008 (pp. 1115-1125). Leeds: British Machine Vision Association.

2007

• L. Steels & B.G. de Boer (2007). Embodiment and self-organization of human categories : a case study for speech. In T. Ziemke, J. Zlatev & R.M. Frank (Eds.), Body, Language and Mind I: Embodiment (Cognitive Linguistics Research, 1) (pp. 241-259). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2012

• B. de Boer (2012). Self-organization and language evolution. In M. Tallerman & K.R. Gibson (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of language evolution (Oxford handbooks in linguistics) (pp. 612-620). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• B. de Boer (2012). Infant-directed speech and language evolution. In M. Tallerman & K.R. Gibson (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of language evolution (Oxford handbooks in linguistics) (pp. 322-327). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2011

• T. Verhoef, B. de Boer, A. del Giudice, C. Padden & S. Kirby (2011). Cultural evolution of combinatorial structure in ongoing artificial speech learning experiments: technical report. (CRL newsletterVol. 23, No. 1 ). La Jolla, CA: Center for Research in Language, University of California at San Diego.
• T. Verhoef & B. de Boer (2011). Language acquisition age effects and their role in the preservation and change of communication systems. Linguistics in Amsterdam, 4(1), 2.

2010

• M. Schoonhoven, R. Pfau & B. de Boer (2010). Colors on hands: phonological markedness of sign language color terms. In D. Brentari, R. Wilbur, D. Quinto-Pozos, G. Mathur, S. Adams & S. Neumann Solow (Eds.), Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 10: research methodologies in sign language linguistics (TISLR 10), September 30-October 2, 2010: Purdue University, Stewart Center, West Lafayette, Indiana (pp. 173-175). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University.

2009

• B. de Boer (2009). [Review of the book The origin of speech]. Lingua, 119(7), 1106-1109.
• B. de Boer & W. Zuidema (2009). Models of language evolution: does the math add up? (ILLC preprint seriesPP-2009-49 ). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation.

2008

• B. de Boer (2008). Modeling the acoustics of air sacs. In S. Heimlich & D. Mellinger (Eds.), Acoustic Communication by Animals: Second International Conference : extended abstracts (pp. 47-48). Corvallis, OR (USA): Oregon State University.
• B. de Boer (2008). Acoustic tubes with maximal and minimal resonance frequencies. In Proceedings of Acoustics '08 (pp. 5063-5068). Paris: Société Francaise d'Acoustique.
• B. de Boer (2008). The acoustic role of supralaryngeal air sacs. In Proceedings of Acoustics '08 (pp. 5945-5950). Paris: Société Francaise d'Acoustique.
• B. de Boer (2008). [Review of the book Evolution and Culture]. Artificial Life, 14(2), 223-225.
• W. Zuidema & B. de Boer (2008). Evolutionary explanations for natural language: criteria from evolutionary biology. (ILLC Preprint SeriesPP-2008-54 ). onbekend: ILLCcap.