Louis-Jean Boë

The Dispersion-Focalization Theory of vowel systems

Jean‐Luc Schwartz, Louis-Jean Boë, Nathalie Vallée et al. · Journal of Phonetics · 1997 · 487 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Speech-language Pathology +14

Major trends in vowel system inventories

Jean‐Luc Schwartz, Louis-Jean Boë, Nathalie Vallée et al. · Journal of Phonetics · 1997 · 292 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Historical Linguistics +13

The potential Neandertal vowel space was as large as that of modern humans

Louis-Jean Boë, Jean-Louis Heim, Kiyoshi Honda et al. · Journal of Phonetics · 2002 · 170 citations

Language Studies, Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics +13

Evidence of a Vocalic Proto-System in the Baboon (Papio papio) Suggests Pre-Hominin Speech Precursors

Louis-Jean Boë, Frédéric Berthommier, Thierry Legou et al. · PLoS ONE · 2017 · 153 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics +17

The vocal tract of newborn humans and Neanderthals: Acoustic capabilities and consequences for the debate on the origin of language. A reply to Lieberman (2007a)

Louis-Jean Boë, Jean-Louis Heim, Kiyoshi Honda et al. · Journal of Phonetics · 2007 · 113 citations

Language Studies, Evolutionary Biology, Linguistics +16