Bart de Boer's publications

Books Journals Reviews Chapters Conferences Etc.

Books

Kuhl, P., Tsao, F.-M., Liu, H.-M., Zhang, Y. & de Boer, B. (2006) Língua, cultura, mente, cérebro: Progressa nas fronteira entre disciplinas São Paulo: Paulistana

Bart de Boer (2001) The origins of vowel systems, Oxford: Oxford University Press (The book based on my PhD. thesis.)

Bart de Boer Self-Organisation in Vowel Systems Vrije Universiteit Brussel AI-lab Ph. D. thesis (Defended june 4th, 1999)

Journal articles

de Boer, Bart (to appear) Modelling vocal anatomy’s significant effect on speech, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

Vogt, Paul & de Boer, Bart (to appear) Language evolution: Computer models for empirical data, Adaptive Behavior

de Boer, Bart & Fitch, W. Tecumseh (to appear) , Computer models of vocal tract evolution: An overview and critique, Adaptive Behavior

de Boer, Bart & Zuidema, Willem (to appear) Multi-Agent Simulations of the Evolution of Combinatorial Phonology, Adaptive Behavior

de Boer, Bart (2009) Acoustic analysis of primate air sacs and their effect on vocalization, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126(6) 3329–3343

Kootstra, Gert & de Boer, Bart (2009) Tackling the premature convergence problem in Monte-Carlo localization, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 57(11) 1107–1118
doi:10.1016/j.robot.2009.07.003

Zuidema, Willem & de Boer, Bart (2009) The Evolution of Combinatorial Phonology, Journal of Phonetics 37(2) 125–144
doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2008.10.003

de Boer, Bart (2005) Evolution of Speech and its Acquisition, Adaptive Behavior 13(4) 281–292

Bart de Boer, Patricia K. Kuhl (2003) Investigating the role of infant-directed speech with a computer model. Acoustics Research Letters On-line 4(4) 129–134

Zuidema, Willem & de Boer, Bart (2003) How did we get from there to here in the evolution of language? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26(6) 694–695

Kuhl, P. K., Tsao, F.-M., Liu, H.- M., Zhang, Y. & de Boer, B. (2001) Language/culture/mind/brain. Progress at the margins between disciplines, Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 935, 136–174.

Bart de Boer (2000) Self organization in vowel systems, Journal of Phonetics 28 (4), 441–465

Bart de Boer (2000) Emergence of vowel systems through self-organisation AI Communications 13, 27–39

Bart de Boer and Eric Postma (2000) Artificial Intelligence research in Belgium and The Netherlands AI Communications 13, 9–11

Bart de Boer (1999) Evolution and self-organisation in vowel systems Evolution of Communication 3 (1), 79–103

Journal Abstracts

de Boer, Bart (2008) Acoustic tubes with maximal and minimal resonances, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123 (5 Pt 2) 3779–3780
Also as: Acta Acustica united with Acustica 94 (suppl 1) S764–S765
For a more extended version, click here.

de Boer, Bart (2008) The acoustic role of supralaryngeal air sacs, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123 (5 Pt 2) 3732–3733
Also as: Acta Acustica united with Acustica 94 (suppl 1) S811–S812
For a more extended version, click here.

de Boer, B. G. & Kuhl, P. K. (2001) Infant-directed vowels are easier to learn for a computer model, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110(5 pt 2 ) p. 2703

Reviews

de Boer, B. (2009) Book review Peter MacNeilage, The Origin of Speech, Lingua 119(7) 1106–1109doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.12.002

de Boer, B (2008) Book review Evolution and Culture, Artificial Life 14(2) 223–225

de Boer, B. (2006) Juliette Blevins, Evolutionary phonology: the emergence of sound patterns (review), Journal of Linguistics 42 703–708

Bart de Boer (2003) Book Review of The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar by Mark C. Baker and Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff, Artificial Life 9 (1) 89–91

(Conference) book chapters

de Boer, Bart (2009) Why women speak better than men (and its significance for evolution), In: Botha, Rudolf & Knight, Chris (Eds.) The Prehistory of Language Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 255–265

de Boer, Bart (2008) The Joy of Sacs, In: Smith, Andrew D., Smith, Kenny & Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon (Eds.) The Evolution of Language, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7) New Jersey: World Scientific pp. 415–416

Steels, Luc & de Boer, Bart (2007) Embodiment and Self-organization of Human Categories. A Case Study for Speech, In: Zlatev, Jordan; Ziemke, Tom; Frank, Roz; Dirven, René (Eds.) Body, Language, and Mind, vol. 1 Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter pp. 241–259

van der Vaart, Elske, de Boer, Bart, Hankel, Albert & Verheij, Bart (2006) Agents Adopting Agriculture: Modeling the Agricultural Transition, In: Nolfi, S., Baldassarre, G., Calabretta, R., Hallam, J., Marocco, D., Meyer, J-A, Parisi, D. (Eds.) From Animals to Animats 9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, LNAI. Volume 4095. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag, pp. 750–761

Belpaeme, Tony, de Boer, Bart and Jansen, Bart (2006) The role of population dynamics in imitation, In: Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C.L. (eds.) Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 179–193

de Boer, Bart (2006) Articulation Constraints and the Descended Larynx, In: Cangelosi, Angelo, Smith, Andrew D. M. and Smith, Kenny, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6) New Jersey: World Scientific. pp. 405–406

de Boer, Bart (2006) The Evolution of Speech, In: Brown, K (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier. Vol 4, pp. 335–338

de Boer, Bart (2006) Computer modeling as a tool for understanding language evolution, In: Gontier, Nathalie, Van Bendegem, Jean Paul, and Aerts, Diederik. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture – A nonadaptationist systems theoretical approach [Theory and Decision Library – Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences. Series editor: Julian Nida-Rümelin]. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 381–406

de Boer, Bart (2005) Cultural and Biological Evolution of Phonemic Speech, In: Capcarrere, Mathieu S., Freitas, Alex A., Bentley, Peter J., Johnson, Colin G. and Timmis, Jon (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Life, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3630, 614–623

de Boer, Bart (2005) Infant directed speech and the evolution of language, In: M. Tallerman (ed.) Evolutionary Prerequisites for Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 100–121

de Boer, Bart (2005) Self-organisation in Language, In: C. Hemelrijk (ed.) Proceedings of the international workshop on Self-organization and Evolution of Social behavior. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 123–139

Bart Jansen, Bart de Boer and Tony Belpaeme (2004) You did it on purpose! Towards intentional embodied agents. In: IIda, F., Pfeifer, R., Steels, L. and Kuniyoshi, Y. (Eds) Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Nores in Artificial Intelligence 3139. pp. 271–277

Bart de Boer (2003) Conditions for Stable Vowel Systems in a Population, in: Wolfgang Banzhaf, Thomas Christaller, Peter Dittrich, Jan T. Kim, Jens Ziegler (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Life, 7th European Conference, ECAL 2003, Dortmund, Germany, September 14–17, 2003, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2801 Berlin:Springer 2003, pp. 415–424

Edwin D. de Jong and Bart G. de Boer, Dynamical Systems, Individual-Based Modeling, and Self-Organization, In: J. N. Kok (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence section in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net]

Bart de Boer (2002) Evolving Sound Systems, In: Angelo Cangelosi & Domenico Parisi (eds.) Simulating the Evolution of Language, Berlin: Springer Verlag pp. 79–97

Bart de Boer (2000) Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation. In: Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, James R. Hurford (eds.) The Evolutionary Emergence of Language : Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 177–198

Bart de Boer & Paul Vogt (1999) Emergence of Speech Sounds in Changing Populations In: Dario Floreano, Jean-Daniel Nicoud & Francesco Mondada (eds.) Advances in Artifical Life, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1674, Berlin Springer Verlag, pp. 664–673

Bart de Boer (1999) Investigating the Emergence of Speech Sounds, In: T. Dean (ed.) IJCAI-99, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman, pp. 364–369

Bart de Boer, Dolores Cañamero (1999) Situated Learning in Autonomous Agents. In: Joan Bliss, Roger Säljö & Paul Light (eds.) Learning Sites: Social and Technological Resources for Learning, Amsterdam: Pergamon pp. 236–248

de Boer, B. (1997) Generating vowels in a population of agents. In P. Husbands & I. Harvey (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life, Cambridge (MA) MIT Press, pp. 503–510

Conference proceedings

de Boer, Bart (2009) Acoustic and Perceptual Effects of Air Sacs, Ways to Protolanguage Conference, September 21–23, 2009, Toruń, Poland

Kootstra, Gert, Nederveen, Arco & de Boer, Bart (2008) Paying Attention to Symmetry. In: M. Everingham, C. J. Needham and R. Fraile (Eds.) Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2008), September 1–4, 2008, Leeds, UK, pp. 1115–1125

de Boer (2008) Modeling the Acoustics of Air Sacs, In: Sara Heimlich and David Mellinger (Eds.) Proceedings of Acoustic Communication by Animals, Second International Conference, pp. 47–48

de Boer (2008) Acoustic tubes with maximal and minimal resonance frequencies In: Proceedings of Acoustics'08, pp. 5063–5068

de Boer (2008) The acoustic role of supralaryngeal air sacs In: Proceedings of Acoustics'08, pp. 5945–5950

de Bie, Pieter & de Boer, Bart (2007) An agent-based model of linguistic diversity, In: A. Benz, C. Ebert & R. van Rooij (Eds.) Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2007 Workshop on Language, Games, and Evolution, pp. 1–8

Kootstra, Gert, Ypma, Jelmer & de Boer, Bart (2007) Exploring Objects for Recognition in the Real World, In: Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 429–434

Kootstra, Gert, Nederveen, Arco & de Boer, Bart (2006) On the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Influences of Eye Movements, In: R. Sun (Ed.) Proceedings of CogSci 2006 Conference, p. 2538

Snijders, Paul, de Jong, Edwin D., de Boer, Bart & Weissing, F. (2006) MultiObjective Diversity Maintenance, In: Keijzer, M. (et al.) Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-06, New York: ACM Press, pp. 1429–1431

Belpaeme, Tony, de Boer, Bart, De Vylder, Bart and Jansen, Bart (2003) The role of population dynamics in imitation, in: Dautenhahn, K. & Nehaniv, C. L. (eds.) Proceedings of the AISB Second International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Aberystwyth, University of Wales, pp. 171–175

Jansen, Bart, De Vylder, Bart, de Boer, Bart & Belpaeme, Tony (2003) Emerging shared action categories in robotic agents through imitation, in: Dautenhahn, K. & Nehaniv, C. L. (eds.) Proceedings of the AISB Second International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Aberystwyth: University of Wales, pp. 145–152

de Boer, B. G. & Kuhl, P. K (2001) Human and computer acquisition of vowel categories, In: Smits, R., Kingston, J., Neary, T. M. and Zondervan, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech Recognition as Pattern Classification, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, July 11–13, 2001 pp. 115–120

Bart de Boer (2000) Imitation games for complex utterances, Proceedings of BNAIC 2000.

Bart de Boer (1998) Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation, In: H. La Poutre & J. van den Herik (eds.) Proceedings Xth Netherlands/Belgium Conference on Artificial Intelligence. pp. 37–46

Bart de Boer (1997) Self organisation in vowel systems through imitation, In J. Coleman (ed.) Computational Phonology, Third Meeting of the ACL SIGPHON, July 12, 1997, pp. 19–25

Luc Steels and Bart de Boer Learning Basic Behaviours on Autonomous Robots, Proceedings of Benelearn '95 conference, 1995

Miscellaneous

de Boer, Bart & Zuidema, Willem (2009) Models of Language Evolution: Does the Math Add Up? ILLC Prepublication series PP-2009-49, 1–10

Zuidema, Willem & de Boer, Bart (2008) Evolutionary Explanations for Natural Language - Criteria from Evolutionary Biology, ILLC Prepublication series PP-2008-56, 1–37

de Boer, Bart (2007) Investigating the acoustic effect of the descended larynx with articulatory models, ACLC working papers, 2007(2), 61–86

Zuidema, Willem & de Boer, Bart (2005) The Evolution of Combinatorial Phonology, ILLC Prepublication series PP-2005-30, 1–34

Bart de Boer (2002) How to keep a vowel system stable over time, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-lab AI memo 02-06

Bart de Boer (1997) Learning vowels using self-organisation Vrije Universiteit Brussel AI-lab AI-memo 97-20

Bart de Boer (1997) Emergent CV-syllables Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-lab AI-memo 97-13

Bart de Boer (1997) A second Report on Emergent Phonology Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-lab AI memo 97-04

Bart de Boer (1996) A First Report on Emergent Phonology Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI lab AI-memo 96-10

Bart de Boer (1994) Classifier systems: A useful approach to machine learning? Leiden university MSc thesis

Bart de Boer (1994) An Autonomous Robot Learning Basic Behaviours, Leiden University Computer Science internal report 94-36

Bart de Boer (1994) Artificial Autonomous Agents and Learning Systems, Leiden University Computer Science internal report 94-34