FORMATION OF LANGUAGES: EQUALITY, HIERARCHY AND TEACHERS

DOI10.1142/S0129183107011121MaRDI QIDQ3499092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Çağlar Tuncay

Publication date 28 May 2008

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

hierarchyequalitylanguagesQuantificationteachers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linguistics (91F20)

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.

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