Formation of Languages; Equality, Hierarchy and Teachers
arXiv:physics/0610110 · doi:10.1142/S0129183107011121
Abstract
A quantitative method is suggested, where meanings of words, and grammatic rules about these, of a vocabulary are represented by real numbers. People meet randomly, and average their vocabularies if they are equal; otherwise they either copy from higher hierarchy or stay idle. Presence of teachers broadcasting the same (but arbitrarily chosen) vocabulary leads the language formations to converge more quickly.
10 pages, 3 (totally 8) figures
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