Bart De Boer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3705741 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bart De Boer |
| NOMBRES | Bart |
| APELLIDO | De Boer |
| FIRMA | DE BOER B |
| AFILIACIONES | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9429-6129 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Modality and stimulus effects on distributional statistical learning
Conversational priming in repetitional responses as a mechanism in language change
In this article, we investigate if conversational priming in repetitional responses could be a factor in language change. In this mechanism, an interlocutor responds to an utterance by the other interactant using a repetitional response. Due to comprehension-to-production priming, the interlocutor producing the repetitional response is more likely to employ the same linguistic variant as the interlocutor producing the original utterance, resultin…
Shared Context Facilitates Lexical Variation in Sign Language Emergence
It has been suggested that social structure affects the degree of lexical variation in sign language emergence. Evidence from signing communities supports this, with smaller, more insular communities typically displaying a higher degree of lexical variation compared to larger, more dispersed and diverse communities. Though several factors have been proposed to affect the degree of variation, here we focus on how shared context, facilitating the u…
Joint origins of speech and music
How music and speech evolved is a mystery. Several hypotheses on their origins, including one on their joint origins, have been put forward but rarely tested. Here we report and comment on the first experiment testing the hypothesis that speech and music bifurcated from a common system. We highlight strengths of the reported experiment, point out its relatedness to animal work, and suggest three alternative interpretations of its results. We conc…
The effect of sociolinguistic factors on variation in the Kata Kolok lexicon
(International Sign) Sign languages can be categorized as shared sign languages or deaf community sign languages, depending on the context in which they emerge. It has been suggested that shared sign languages exhibit more variation in the expression of everyday concepts than deaf community sign languages ( Meir, Israel, Sandler, Padden, & Aronoff, 2012 ). For deaf community sign languages, it has been shown that various sociolinguistic factors c…
The effect of cultural transmission on shared sign language persistence
In this paper, we revisit a mathematical model of sign language persistence by Aoki and Feldman (Theor Popul Biol 39(3):358–372, 1991), which investigates the evolution of genes causing deafness, affected by an assortative mating parameter, and the cultural transmission of sign language. To assess their model, we reimplement it as an agent-based simulation to be able to easily represent structured relationships in a finite population. We study th…
An agent-based model of sign language persistence informed by real-world data
As evidence from sign languages is increasingly used to investigate the process of language emergence and evolution, it is important to understand the conditions that allow for sign languages to persist. We build on a mathematical model of sign language persistence (i.e. protection from loss) which takes into account the genetic transmission of deafness, the cultural transmission of sign language and marital patterns (Aoki & Feldman, 1991). We us…
Vocal Tract Evolution and Speech Production
The human vocal tract is very different from those of other apes, and it has been proposed that this is due to evolutionary pressures related to speech. There are a number of indications that this is indeed the case, and fossil evidence shows that, for all indications that have been studied so far, Neanderthals are similar to modern humans. This indicates that the latest common ancestor, approximately 500,000 years ago, already had adaptations to…
Introducing Parselmouth
Biology, culture, evolution and the cognitive nature of sound systems
Emergence of combinatorial structure and economy through iterated learning with continuous acoustic signals
Loss of air sacs improved hominin speech abilities
Self‐organization and language evolution
This article focuses on the two different levels that are used to define language. One of the levels is the individual level, where detailed individual behavior is studied and the other is the population level, where individual behavior is averaged and abstracted, and more general trends and processes are studied. Both these levels are intertwined and interdependent and such interaction between the levels can lead to a phenomenon called self-orga…
First formant difference for /i/ and /u
Modelling vocal anatomy's significant effect on speech
This paper investigates the effect of larynx position on the articulatory abilities of a humanlike vocal tract. Previous work has investigated models that were built to resemble the anatomy of existing species or fossil ancestors. This has led to conflicting conclusions about the relation between the evolution of anatomy and the evolution of speech. Here a model is proposed to systematically investigate the relation between larynx height and arti…
Investigating the acoustic effect of the descended larynx with articulatory models
The evolution of combinatorial phonology
The Origins of Vowel Systems
This book addresses the question of how the properties of human vowel systems can be explained. Though it is found that vowel systems of human languages are optimal for communicative purposes, it is not clear who is doing the optimization. If children learn a language, they learn to produce sounds that are as close as possible to those used by their parents and peers. The hypothesis is put forward that the optimization is the result of self-organ…
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to this volume - linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others - adopt a modern Darwinian perspective which offers a bold synthesis of the human and natural sciences. As a feature of human social intelligence, language evolution is driven by biologically anomalous l…
Self-organization in vowel systems
The concept of environmental function and its valuation
Self-organization in vowel systems
Introducing Parselmouth
Emergence of combinatorial structure and economy through iterated learning with continuous acoustic signals
Loss of air sacs improved hominin speech abilities
The evolution of combinatorial phonology
Investigating the acoustic effect of the descended larynx with articulatory models
Joint origins of speech and music
How music and speech evolved is a mystery. Several hypotheses on their origins, including one on their joint origins, have been put forward but rarely tested. Here we report and comment on the first experiment testing the hypothesis that speech and music bifurcated from a common system. We highlight strengths of the reported experiment, point out its relatedness to animal work, and suggest three alternative interpretations of its results. We conc…
First formant difference for /i/ and /u
Modelling vocal anatomy's significant effect on speech
This paper investigates the effect of larynx position on the articulatory abilities of a humanlike vocal tract. Previous work has investigated models that were built to resemble the anatomy of existing species or fossil ancestors. This has led to conflicting conclusions about the relation between the evolution of anatomy and the evolution of speech. Here a model is proposed to systematically investigate the relation between larynx height and arti…
Shared Context Facilitates Lexical Variation in Sign Language Emergence
It has been suggested that social structure affects the degree of lexical variation in sign language emergence. Evidence from signing communities supports this, with smaller, more insular communities typically displaying a higher degree of lexical variation compared to larger, more dispersed and diverse communities. Though several factors have been proposed to affect the degree of variation, here we focus on how shared context, facilitating the u…
The concept of environmental function and its valuation
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to this volume - linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others - adopt a modern Darwinian perspective which offers a bold synthesis of the human and natural sciences. As a feature of human social intelligence, language evolution is driven by biologically anomalous l…
Self-organization in vowel systems
The Origins of Vowel Systems
This book addresses the question of how the properties of human vowel systems can be explained. Though it is found that vowel systems of human languages are optimal for communicative purposes, it is not clear who is doing the optimization. If children learn a language, they learn to produce sounds that are as close as possible to those used by their parents and peers. The hypothesis is put forward that the optimization is the result of self-organ…
The evolution of combinatorial phonology
Modelling vocal anatomy's significant effect on speech
This paper investigates the effect of larynx position on the articulatory abilities of a humanlike vocal tract. Previous work has investigated models that were built to resemble the anatomy of existing species or fossil ancestors. This has led to conflicting conclusions about the relation between the evolution of anatomy and the evolution of speech. Here a model is proposed to systematically investigate the relation between larynx height and arti…
Investigating the acoustic effect of the descended larynx with articulatory models
Self‐organization and language evolution
This article focuses on the two different levels that are used to define language. One of the levels is the individual level, where detailed individual behavior is studied and the other is the population level, where individual behavior is averaged and abstracted, and more general trends and processes are studied. Both these levels are intertwined and interdependent and such interaction between the levels can lead to a phenomenon called self-orga…
First formant difference for /i/ and /u
Loss of air sacs improved hominin speech abilities
Emergence of combinatorial structure and economy through iterated learning with continuous acoustic signals
Biology, culture, evolution and the cognitive nature of sound systems
Vocal Tract Evolution and Speech Production
The human vocal tract is very different from those of other apes, and it has been proposed that this is due to evolutionary pressures related to speech. There are a number of indications that this is indeed the case, and fossil evidence shows that, for all indications that have been studied so far, Neanderthals are similar to modern humans. This indicates that the latest common ancestor, approximately 500,000 years ago, already had adaptations to…
Introducing Parselmouth
The effect of sociolinguistic factors on variation in the Kata Kolok lexicon
(International Sign) Sign languages can be categorized as shared sign languages or deaf community sign languages, depending on the context in which they emerge. It has been suggested that shared sign languages exhibit more variation in the expression of everyday concepts than deaf community sign languages ( Meir, Israel, Sandler, Padden, & Aronoff, 2012 ). For deaf community sign languages, it has been shown that various sociolinguistic factors c…
The effect of cultural transmission on shared sign language persistence
In this paper, we revisit a mathematical model of sign language persistence by Aoki and Feldman (Theor Popul Biol 39(3):358–372, 1991), which investigates the evolution of genes causing deafness, affected by an assortative mating parameter, and the cultural transmission of sign language. To assess their model, we reimplement it as an agent-based simulation to be able to easily represent structured relationships in a finite population. We study th…
An agent-based model of sign language persistence informed by real-world data
As evidence from sign languages is increasingly used to investigate the process of language emergence and evolution, it is important to understand the conditions that allow for sign languages to persist. We build on a mathematical model of sign language persistence (i.e. protection from loss) which takes into account the genetic transmission of deafness, the cultural transmission of sign language and marital patterns (Aoki & Feldman, 1991). We us…
Joint origins of speech and music
How music and speech evolved is a mystery. Several hypotheses on their origins, including one on their joint origins, have been put forward but rarely tested. Here we report and comment on the first experiment testing the hypothesis that speech and music bifurcated from a common system. We highlight strengths of the reported experiment, point out its relatedness to animal work, and suggest three alternative interpretations of its results. We conc…
Shared Context Facilitates Lexical Variation in Sign Language Emergence
It has been suggested that social structure affects the degree of lexical variation in sign language emergence. Evidence from signing communities supports this, with smaller, more insular communities typically displaying a higher degree of lexical variation compared to larger, more dispersed and diverse communities. Though several factors have been proposed to affect the degree of variation, here we focus on how shared context, facilitating the u…
Modality and stimulus effects on distributional statistical learning
Conversational priming in repetitional responses as a mechanism in language change
In this article, we investigate if conversational priming in repetitional responses could be a factor in language change. In this mechanism, an interlocutor responds to an utterance by the other interactant using a repetitional response. Due to comprehension-to-production priming, the interlocutor producing the repetitional response is more likely to employ the same linguistic variant as the interlocutor producing the original utterance, resultin…
Computer Science (16 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Linguistics (12 obras) · Language and cultural evolution (11 obras) · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (9 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (8 obras) · Biology (8 obras) · Cognitive psychology (7 obras) · Mathematics (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras)