Smith, A. D. M., Schouwstra, M., de Boer, B. & Smith, K. (2010) The Evolution of Language, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8) New Jersey: World Scientific
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
de Boer, Bart (2001) The origins of vowel systems, Oxford: Oxford University Press (The book based on my PhD. thesis.)
de Boer, Bart (1999) Self-Organisation in Vowel Systems Vrije Universiteit Brussel AI-lab Ph. D. thesis (Defended june 4th, 1999)
de Boer, Bart & Verhoef, Tessa (to appear) Language Dynamics in Structured Form and Meaning Spaces, Advances in Complex Systems
de Boer, Bart (to appear) Air sacs and vocal fold vibrations: Implications for evolution of speech, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum
de Boer, Bart (2012) Loss of air sacs improved hominin speech abilities
Journal of Human Evolution 62(1) 1–6
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.07.007
de Boer, Bart (2011) Modeling evolution of speech: Comments on "Modeling the
cultural evolution of language" by Luc Steels, Physics of Life Reviews
8(4) 361–362
doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2011.10.015
Kootstra, Gert, de Boer, Bart, Schomaker, Lambert R. B. (2011) Predicting Eye Fixations on Complex Visual Stimuli using Local Symmetry, Cognitive Computation 3 223–240
de Boer, Bart (2011) First formant difference for /i/ and /u/: A cross-linguistic study and an explanation, Journal of Phonetics, 39(1) 110–114
de Boer, Bart (2010) Investigating the acoustic effect of the descended larynx with articulatory models, Journal of Phonetics, 38(4) 679–686, letter to the editor
de Boer, Bart (2010) Modelling vocal anatomy’s significant effect on speech, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 8(4) 351–366
de Boer, Bart & Zuidema, Willem (2010) Multi-Agent Simulations of the Evolution of Combinatorial Phonology, Adaptive Behavior18(2) 141–154
Vogt, Paul & de Boer, Bart (2010) Editorial: Language evolution: Computer models for empirical data, Adaptive Behavior 18(1) 5–11
de Boer, Bart & Fitch, W. Tecumseh (2010), Computer models of vocal tract evolution: An overview and critique, Adaptive Behavior 18(1) 36–47
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.
de Boer, Bart (2000) Self organization in vowel systems, Journal of Phonetics 28 (4), 441–465
de Boer, Bart (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
de Boer, Bart (1999) Evolution and self-organisation in vowel systems Evolution of Communication 3 (1), 79–103
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
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
de Boer, Bart (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
Verhoef, Tessa, de Boer, Bart & Kirby, Simon (to appear 2012) Holistic or Synthetic Protolanguage: Evidence from Iterated Learning of Whistled Signals, Accepted for presentation at EVOLANG IX, Kyoto
de Boer, Bart (to appear 2012) Iconicity in Structured Form and Meaning Spaces, Accepted for presentation at EVOLANG IX, Kyoto
de Boer, Bart (2011) Infant-directed speech and language evolution, Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, Oxford University Press, pp. 322–327
de Boer, Bart (2011) Self-organization and language evolution, Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, Oxford University Press, pp. 612–620
Verhoef, Tessa & de Boer, Bart (2010) The Critical Period and Preservation of Emerged Vowel Systems, In: Smith, A. D. M., Schouwstra, M., de Boer, B. & Smith, K. (Eds.) The Evolution of Language, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8) New Jersey: World Scientific pp. 509–510
de Boer, Bart (2010) The perceptual effect of air sacs, In: Smith, A. D. M., Schouwstra, M., de Boer, B. & Smith, K. (Eds.) The Evolution of Language, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8) New Jersey: World Scientific pp. 395–396
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
Jansen, Bart, de Boer, Bart & Belpaeme, Tony (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
de Boer, Bart (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
de Jong, Edwin D. & de Boer, Bart G. (2002)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]
de Boer, Bart (2002) Evolving Sound Systems, In: Angelo Cangelosi & Domenico Parisi (eds.) Simulating the Evolution of Language, Berlin: Springer Verlag pp. 79–97
de Boer, Bart (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
de Boer, Bart & Vogt, Paul (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
de Boer, Bart (1999) Investigating the Emergence of Speech Sounds, In: T. Dean (ed.) IJCAI-99, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman, pp. 364–369
de Boer, Bart & Cañamero Dolores (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, Bart (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
Verhoef, Tessa & de Boer, Bart (2011) Cultural emergence of phonemic combinatorial structure in an artificial whistled language, in Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong, China.
Schoonhoven, Monica B., de Boer, Bart & Pfau, Roland (2010) Colours on hands: Phonological markedness of sign language color terms. 10th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 10), October 21st, 2010, West Lafayette (USA), pp. 173–175
Zuidema, Willem & de Boer, Bart (2010) Models of Language Evolution: Does the Math Add Up? Models of Language Evolution Workshop at EVOLANG 2010, April 14, 2010, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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
Kootstra, G., Ypma, J. & de Boer, B. (2008) Active Exploration and Keypoint Clustering for Object Recognition. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 19-23, 2008, Pasadena, California
de Boer, Bart (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, Bart (2008) Acoustic tubes with maximal and minimal resonance frequencies In: Proceedings of Acoustics'08, pp. 5063–5068
de Boer, Bart (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, Bart & Kuhl, Patricia 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
de Boer, Bart (2000) Imitation games for complex utterances, Proceedings of BNAIC 2000.
de Boer, Bart (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
de Boer, Bart (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
Steels, Luc & de Boer, Bart Learning Basic Behaviours on Autonomous Robots, Proceedings of Benelearn '95 conference, 1995
Verhoef, Tessa, de Boer, Bart, del Giudice, Alex, Padden, Carol & Kirby, Simon (2011) Cultural evolution of combinatorial structure in ongoing artificial speech learning experiments, Technical report, Center for Research in Language, San Diego, California.
Verhoef, Tessa & de Boer, Bart (2011) Language acquisition age effects and their role in the preservation and change of communication systems, Linguistics in Amsterdam, 4(1), 1–23
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
de Boer, Bart (2002) How to keep a vowel system stable over time, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-lab AI memo 02-06
de Boer, Bart (1998) Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation Vrije Universiteit Brussel AI-lab AI-memo 98-16
de Boer, Bart (1998) A Realistic Model of Emergent Phonology Vrije Universiteit Brussel AI-lab AI-memo 98-04
de Boer, Bart (1997) Learning vowels using self-organisation Vrije Universiteit Brussel AI-lab AI-memo 97-20
de Boer, Bart (1997) Emergent CV-syllables Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-lab AI-memo 97-13
de Boer, Bart (1997) A second Report on Emergent Phonology Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-lab AI memo 97-04
de Boer, Bart (1996) A First Report on Emergent Phonology Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI lab AI-memo 96-10
de Boer, Bart (1994) Classifier systems: A useful approach to machine learning? Leiden university MSc thesis
de Boer, Bart (1994) An Autonomous Robot Learning Basic Behaviours, Leiden University Computer Science internal report 94-36
de Boer, Bart (1994) Artificial Autonomous Agents and Learning Systems, Leiden University Computer Science internal report 94-34