MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF SURVIVAL FOR MINORITY LANGUAGES

Christian Schulze and Dietrich Stauffer ()
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Christian Schulze: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Cologne University, D-50923 Köln, Germany
Dietrich Stauffer: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Cologne University, D-50923 Köln, Germany

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2006, vol. 09, issue 03, 183-191

Abstract: Our earlier language model is modified to allow for the survival of a minority language without higher status, just because of the pride of its speakers in their linguistic identity. An appendix studies the roughness of the interface for linguistic regions when one language conquers the whole territory.

Keywords: Language competition; Monte Carlo; Quebec (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1142/S0219525906000719

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