Phase transition in a sexual age-structured model of learning foreign languages
Physics and Society
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
The understanding of language competition helps us to predict extinction and survival of languages spoken by minorities. A simple agent-based model of a sexual population, based on the Penna model, is built in order to find out under which circumstances one language dominates other ones. This model considers that only young people learn foreign languages. The simulations show a first order phase transition where the ratio between the number of speakers of different languages is the order parameter and the mutation rate is the control one.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0509018,
title = {Phase transition in a sexual age-structured model of learning foreign languages},
author = {Veit Schwammle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0509018},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
preliminary version, to be submitted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. C