Louis-Jean Boë

List of John Benjamins publications for which Louis-Jean Boë plays a role.

Articles

Boë, Louis-Jean, Jean-Louis Heim, Christian Abry and Pierre Badin 2009 Neandertal vocal tract: Which potential for vowel acoustics?Vocalize to Localize, Abry, Christian, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz (eds.), pp. 87–106 | Article
Boë, Louis-Jean, Jean-Louis Heim, Christian Abry and Pierre Badin 2005 Neandertal vocal tract: Which potential for vowel acoustics?Vocalize to Localize, Abry, Christian, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz (eds.), pp. 409–429 | Article
Potential speech abilities constitute a key component in the description of the Neandertals and their relations with modern Homo Sapiens. Since Lieberman & Crelin postulated in 1971 the theory that “Neanderthal man did not have the anatomical prerequisites for producing the full range of human… read more
Boë, Louis-Jean, Shinji Maeda and Jean-Louis Heim 1999 Neandertal man was not morphologically handicapped for speechPhonetics of the Origins and Evolution of Speech, Demolin, Didier and Jean-Marie Hombert (eds.), pp. 49–77 | Article
Since Lieberman and Crelin (1971) postulated a theory that Neandertals were speechless species, the speech capability of Neandertals has been a subject of hot debate for over 30 years and remains as a controversial question. These authors claimed that the acquisition of a low laryngeal position… read more