Formation of languages; Equality, hierarchy and teachers

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Tuncay, Çağlar

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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. The presence of teachers broadcasting the same (but arbitrarily chosen) vocabulary leads the language formations to converge more quickly.

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Mathematical Physics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, General Physics and Astronomy, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computer Science Applications

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36457

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C

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https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129183107011121

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Ç. Tuncay, “Formation of languages; Equality, hierarchy and teachers,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C, pp. 1061–1070, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36457.