Jean-Louis Heim
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean-Louis Heim plays a role.
2013 Reconstructed fossil vocal tracts and the production of speech: Phylogenetic and ontogenetic considerations New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 75–128 | Article
The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of this one saw a reorganization of research in the field of speech and language emergence (SLE). Naturalism is the core of this new approach. It consists in describing the relations between biological aspects (in every sense of the word) on the… read more
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
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
1999 Neandertal man was not morphologically handicapped for speech Phonetics 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