Simulation for competition of languages with an aging sexual population
Authored by V Schwammle
Date Published: 2005
DOI: 10.1142/s0129183105008084
Sponsors:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
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Abstract
Recently, individual-based models originally used for biological
purposes revealed interesting insights into processes of the competition
of languages. Within this new field of population dynamics a model
considering sexual populations with aging is presented. The agents are
situated on a lattice and each one speaks one of two languages or both.
The stability and quantitative structure of an interface between two
regions, initially speaking different languages, is studied. We find
that individuals speaking both languages do not prefer any of these
regions and have a different age structure than individuals speaking
only one language.
Tags
Evolution
Dynamics
Death
Lattice
Penna model