Bit-strings and other modifications of Viviane model for language competition
Physics and Society
2015-06-26 v1
Abstract
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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@article{arxiv.physics/0608204,
title = {Bit-strings and other modifications of Viviane model for language competition},
author = {P. M. C. de Oliveira and D. Stauffer and F. W. S. Lima and A. O. Sousa and C. Schulze and S. Moss de Oliveira},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0608204},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages including 8 figures, to be submitted to Physica A