Bit-strings and other modifications of Viviane model for language competition

P.M.C. de Oliveira, D. Stauffer, F.W.S. Lima, A.O. Sousa, C. Schulze and S. Moss de Oliveira

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 376, issue C, 609-616

Abstract: 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, the resulting size distribution of languages agrees with the empirically observed slightly asymmetric log-normal distribution. Several other modifications were also tried but either had more free parameters or agreed less well with reality.

Keywords: Linguistics; Monte Carlo simulation; Language size distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.10.022

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