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A. O. Sousa
2007
Bit-strings and other modifications of Viviane model for language competitiondoi.orgPDF
PMC de Oliveira, D Stauffer, FWS Lima, AO Sousa, C Schulze, SM de Oliveira
Physica A-Statistical Mechanics And Its Applications 376:609--616, 2007
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 ...MORE ⇓
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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