Non-equilibrium and irreversible simulation of competition among languages

The bit-string model of Schulze and Stauffer [Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 16 (2005) 781] is applied to non-equilibrium situations and then gives better agreement with the empirical distribution of language sizes. Here the size is the number of people having this language as mother tongue. In contrast, when equilibrium is combined with irreversible mutations of languages, one language always dominates and is spoken by at least 80% of the population.

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Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Stauffer, D. ; Schulze, C. ; Lima, F.W.S. ; Wichmann, S. ; Solomon, S.
Published in:	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0378-4371. - Vol. 371.2006, 2, p. 719-724
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Linguistics \| Size distribution \| Non-equilibrium \| Monte Carlo simulation

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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