Demography and language competition

Human Biology

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 181-210

  Kandler, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Language competition; Language extinction; Language maintenance; Population dispersal; Population growth; Reaction dispersal competition model

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649111434     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.081.0305     Document Type: Article

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