Modeling language competition

Marco Patriarca and Teemu Leppänen

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 338, issue 1, 296-299

Abstract: We consider a model introduced recently [Nature 424(2003)900], for describing competition between two languages, which in typical situations predicts the extinction of one of them. We generalize it by introducing a spatial dependence in terms of a reaction–diffusion equation. We show that in this generalized model both languages can survive, each mostly concentrated in a different geographical area.

Keywords: Reaction–diffusion equations; Language competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.02.056

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