Theoretical model for the evolution of the linguistic diversity

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 361, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 361-370

  De Oliveira, Viviane M ^a   Gomes, M A F ^a   Tsang, I R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diversity; Language competition; Languages

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

GEOGRAPHIC COLONIZATION; LANGUAGE COMPETITION; LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY; MUTATION PROBABILITY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 27744453494     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.06.069     Document Type: Article

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