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physics.soc-ph2007★ 5 cited
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…
physics.soc-ph2007★ 2 cited
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…