Influence of geography on language competition

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 174-186

  Patriarca, Marco ^a,b   Heinsalu, Els ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Culture diffusion; Language competition; Reaction diffusion

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION;

CULTURAL TRAITS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; HISTORICAL FACTORS; INHOMOGENEITIES; LANGUAGE COMPETITION; POPULATION GROWTH; REACTION DIFFUSION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 55949118988     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.09.034     Document Type: Article

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