Neutral stability, drift, and the diversification of languages

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2011.07.005MaRDI QIDQ1786385zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christina Pawlowitsch, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Nikolaus Ritt

Publication date 24 September 2018

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.07.005

zbMATH Keywords

evolutionary language gamelanguage evolutionneutrally stable polymorphismsshifting balance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Evolutionary games (91A22) Linguistics (91F20)

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