Utterance selection model of language change

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Baxter, G J ^a   Blythe, R A ^a,b   Croft, W ^a   McKane, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; THEORY OF EVOLUTION; THEORY OF LANGUAGE CHANGE;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33645796712     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.046118     Document Type: Article

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