Bart de Boer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bart de Boer plays a role.
Articles
2020 The effect of sociolinguistic factors on variation in the Kata Kolok lexicon Macro and micro-social variation in Asia-Pacific sign languages, Palfreyman, Nick (ed.), pp. 53–88 | Article
Abstract (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… read more
2017 Conventionalisation and discrimination as competing pressures on continuous speech-like signals Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language, Hartmann, Stefan, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 352–375 | Article
Arbitrary communication systems can emerge from iconic beginnings through processes of conventionalisation via interaction. Here, we explore whether this process of conventionalisation occurs with continuous, auditory signals. We conducted an artificial signalling experiment. Participants either… read more
1999 Evolution and self-organisation in vowel systems Phonetics of the Origins and Evolution of Speech, Demolin, Didier and Jean-Marie Hombert (eds.), pp. 79–103 | Article
This paper describes computer simulations that investigate the role of self-organisation in explaining the universals of human vowel systems. It has been observed that human vowel systems show remarkable regularities, and that these regularities optimise acoustic distinctiveness and are therefore… read more