Bit-strings and other modifications of Viviane model for language competition

Details Bit-strings and other modifications of Viviane model for language competition Bit-strings and other modifications of Viviane model for language competition

2006-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608204v1

Physics

Physics and Society

12 pages including 8 figures, to be submitted to Physica A

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The language competition model of Viviane de Oliveira et al is modified by associating with each language a string of 32 bits. Whenever a language changes in this Viviane model, also one randomly selected bit is flipped. If then only languages with different bit-strings are counted as different, the resulting size distribution of languages agrees with the empirically observed slightly asymmetric log-normal distribution. Several other modifications were also tried but either had more free parameters or agreed less well with reality.

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