Scaling relations for diversity of languages

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 271, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 489-495

  Gomes, M A F ^a   Vasconcelos, G L ^a   Tsang, I J ^b   Tsang, I R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOLOGY; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DIVERSITY; FRAGMENTATION; LANGUAGES; SCALING;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0343496751     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00249-6     Document Type: Article

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