Viability and resilience of languages in competition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chapel, Laetitia ^a   Castelló, Xavier ^b   Bernard, Claire ^a   Deffuant, Guillaume ^a   Eguíluz, Víctor M ^b   Martin, Sophie ^b   San Miguel, Maxi ^b  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA INTERDISCIPLINAR Y SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS IFISC CSIC UIB   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; KERNEL METHOD; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; POLICY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77749245889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008681     Document Type: Article

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