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physics.soc-ph2008★ 8 cited
Competition and fragmentation: a simple model generating lognormal-like distributions
V. Schwämmle, Silvio M. D. Queirós, E. Brigatti +1
The current distribution of language size in terms of speaker population is generally described using a lognormal distribution. Analyzing the original real data we show how the dou…
physics.soc-ph2005★ 36 cited
Simulation for competition of languages with an ageing sexual population
Veit Schwämmle
Recently, individual-based models originally used for biological purposes revealed interesting insights into processes of the competition of languages. Within this new field of pop…