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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…
Approximately Independent Features of Languages
Eric W. Holman
To facilitate the testing of models for the evolution of languages, the present note offers a set of linguistic features that are approximately independent of each other. To find t…
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…
On the relation between structural diversity and geographical distance among languages: observations and computer simulations
Eric W. Holman, Christian Schulze, Dietrich Stauffer +1
The recent availability of larger typological databases such as Haspelmath et al. (2005) has brought the linguistics community closer to having a solid, empirical foundation for ma…