Bifurcation analysis of the fully symmetric language dynamical equation

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 265-285

  Mitchener, W Garrett ^a  

^a Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Dynamical system; Evolution; Language; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PARENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; PARENTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0642378021     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-002-0172-8     Document Type: Article

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