Bart de Boer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning at the University of Washington. After completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, he spent four months carrying out fieldwork on the Bahing language of East Nepal before returning to Vrije as a Postdoctoral Assistant. He took up his current post in December 2000.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Universal Tendencies of Human Sound Systems ; 3. Self-Organization ; 4. The Simulation ; 5. Results ; 6. Simulated Evolution of Other Parts of Language ; 7. Implications for Other Parts of Language ; References

Bart de Boer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning at the University of Washington. After completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, he spent four months carrying out fieldwork on the Bahing language of East Nepal before returning to Vrije as a Postdoctoral Assistant. He took up his current post in December 2000.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Universal Tendencies of Human Sound Systems ; 3. Self-Organization ; 4. The Simulation ; 5. Results ; 6. Simulated Evolution of Other Parts of Language ; 7. Implications for Other Parts of Language ; References

Bart de Boer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning at the University of Washington. After completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, he spent four months carrying out fieldwork on the Bahing language of East Nepal before returning to Vrije as a Postdoctoral Assistant. He took up his current post in December 2000.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Universal Tendencies of Human Sound Systems ; 3. Self-Organization ; 4. The Simulation ; 5. Results ; 6. Simulated Evolution of Other Parts of Language ; 7. Implications for Other Parts of Language ; References