FORMATION OF LANGUAGES: EQUALITY, HIERARCHY AND TEACHERS

DOI10.1142/S0129183107011121zbMATH Open1194.91172arXivphysics/0610110OpenAlexW3102363739MaRDI QIDQ3499092FDOQ3499092

Authors: Çağlar Tuncay 

Publication date: 28 May 2008

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics C (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610110

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zbMATH Keywords

hierarchyequalitylanguagesQuantificationteachers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linguistics (91F20)

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• MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF DEFFUANT OPINION DYNAMICS WITH QUALITY DIFFERENCES
• SIMULATION FOR COMPETITION OF LANGUAGES WITH AN AGING SEXUAL POPULATION

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• One-mode model in the bipartite hierarchical structure of language networks
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