Modelling endangered languages: The effects of bilingualism and social structure

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-45

  Minett, James W ^a   Wang, William S Y ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Dynamical system; Language competition; Language death; Language maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348903920     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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