Formation of Languages; Equality, Hierarchy and Teachers
Physics and Society
2009-11-13 v1 Computational Physics
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0610110,
title = {Formation of Languages; Equality, Hierarchy and Teachers},
author = {Caglar Tuncay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0610110},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 (totally 8) figures