DO LANGUAGE CHANGE RATES DEPEND ON POPULATION SIZE?
2008 ◽
Vol 11
(03)
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pp. 357-369
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An earlier study [24] concluded, based on computer simulations and some inferences from empirical data, that languages will change the more slowly the larger the population gets. We replicate this study using a more complete language model for simulations (the Schulze model combined with a Barabási–Albert network) and a richer empirical dataset [12]. Our simulations show either a negligible or a strong dependence of language change on population sizes, depending on the parameter settings; while empirical data, like some of the simulations, show a negligible dependence.
2020 ◽
1963 ◽
Vol 20
(1)
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pp. 59-88
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2020 ◽
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2020 ◽
Vol 287
(1922)
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pp. 20192613
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2020 ◽
Vol 117
(33)
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pp. 20063-20069
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2002 ◽
Vol 05
(04)
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pp. 457-461
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