Simulation for competition of languages with an ageing sexual population
arXiv:physics/0503238 · doi:10.1142/S0129183105008084
Abstract
Recently, individual-based models originally used for biological purposes revealed interesting insights into processes of the competition of languages. Within this new field of population dynamics a model considering sexual populations with ageing is presented. The agents are situated on a lattice and each one speaks one of two languages or both. The stability and quantitative structure of an interface between two regions, initially speaking different languages, is studied. We find that individuals speaking both languages do not prefer any of these regions and have a different age structure than individuals speaking only one language.
submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics C
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