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The emerging field of language dynamics
S. Wichmann
A simple review by a linguist, citing many articles by physicists: Quantitative methods, agent-based computer simulations, language dynamics, language typology, historical linguist…
Meaning and Form in a Language Computer Simulation
Soeren Wichmann, Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze +2
Thousands of different forms (words) are associated with thousands of different meanings (concepts) in a language computer model. Reasonable agreement with reality is found for the…
A computer simulation of language families
Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira, Dietrich Stauffer, Soeren Wichmann +1
This paper presents Monte Carlo simulations of language populations and the development of language families, showing how a simple model can lead to distributions similar to the on…
Do language change rates depend on population size?
Soeren Wichmann, Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze +1
An earlier study (Nettle 1999b) concluded, based on computer simulations and some inferences from empirical data, that languages will change the more slowly the larger the populati…