The emerging field of language dynamics
arXiv:0801.1415
Abstract
A simple review by a linguist, citing many articles by physicists: Quantitative methods, agent-based computer simulations, language dynamics, language typology, historical linguistics
References in corpus (6)
- Emergence of scaling in random networks
- Statistical physics of social dynamics
- Language evolution and population Dynamics in a system of two interacting species
- Bounded fitness landscapes and the evolution of the linguistic diversity
- Non-equilibrium and Irreversible Simulation of Competition among Languages
- Physics of randomness and regularities for cities, languages, and their lifetimes and family trees