Non-equilibrium and irreversible simulation of competition among languages

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 371, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 719-724

  Stauffer, D ^a   Schulze, C ^a   Lima, F W S ^b   Wichmann, S ^c   Solomon, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Linguistics; Monte Carlo simulation; Non equilibrium; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

IRREVERSIBLE SIMULATIONS; MOTHER TONGUE; NON EQUILIBRIUM SIMULATIONS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 33748858509     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.03.045     Document Type: Article

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