Non-equilibrium and irreversible simulation of competition among languages

D. Stauffer; C. Schulze; F. W.S. Lima; S. Wichmann; S. Solomon

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2006.03.045

Non-equilibrium and irreversible simulation of competition among languages

D. Stauffer^*, C. Schulze, F. W.S. Lima, S. Wichmann, S. Solomon

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Racah Institute of Physics

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Abstract

The bit-string model of Schulze and Stauffer [Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 16 (2005) 781] is applied to non-equilibrium situations and then gives better agreement with the empirical distribution of language sizes. Here the size is the number of people having this language as mother tongue. In contrast, when equilibrium is combined with irreversible mutations of languages, one language always dominates and is spoken by at least 80% of the population.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	719-724
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	371
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2006.03.045
State	Published - 15 Nov 2006

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Linguistics
Monte Carlo simulation
Non-equilibrium
Size distribution

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