The similarity of the evolution of human languages (or alphabets, bird songs, . . . ) to biological evolution of species is utilized to study with up to 10 9 people the rise and fall of languages either by macroscopic differential equations similar to biological Lotka-Volterra equation, or by micros
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Microscopic Abrams–Strogatz model of language competition
✍ Scribed by Dietrich Stauffer; Xavier Castelló; Víctor M. Eguíluz; Maxi San Miguel
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 672 KB
- Volume
- 374
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-4371
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The language competition model of Viviane de Oliveira et al. is modified by associating with each language a string of 32 bits. Whenever a language changes in this Viviane model, also one randomly selected bit is flipped. If then only languages with different bit-strings are counted as different, th