FORMATION OF LANGUAGES: EQUALITY, HIERARCHY AND TEACHERS

Çağlar Tuncay ()
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Çağlar Tuncay: Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2007, vol. 18, issue 06, 1061-1070

Abstract: A quantitative method is suggested, where meanings of words, and grammatic rules about these, of a vocabulary are represented by real numbers. People meet randomly, and average their vocabularies if they are equal; otherwise they either copy from higher hierarchy or stay idle. The presence of teachers broadcasting the same (but arbitrarily chosen) vocabulary leads the language formations to converge more quickly.

Keywords: Quantification; languages; equality; hierarchy; teachers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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