2024-03-28T10:53:38Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/186912018-09-13T09:12:02Zcom_10261_2855com_10261_4col_10261_2860
2009-11-16T12:26:16Z
urn:hdl:10261/18691
Modelling language competition: bilingualism and complex social networks
Castelló, Xavier
Toivonen, Riitta
Eguíluz, Víctor M.
Loureiro-Porto, Lucía
Saramäki, J.
Kaski, K.
San Miguel, Maxi
8 pages, 2 figures.-- En: The evolution of language; Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona 2008. Eds. A.D.M. Smith, K. Smith, R. Ferrer-Cancho.
In the general context of dynamics of social consensus, we study an agent based model for the competition between two socially equivalent languages, addressing the role of bilingualism and social structure. In a regular network, we study the formation of linguistic domains and their interaction across the boundaries. We also analyse the dynamics on a small world network and on a network with community structure. In all cases, a final scenario of dominance of one language and extinction of the other is obtained (dominance-extinction state). In comparison with the regular network, smaller times for extinction are found in the small world network. In the network with communities instead, the average time for extinction does not give a characteristic time for the dynamics, and metastable states are observed at all time scales.
2009-11-16T12:26:16Z
2009-11-16T12:26:16Z
2008-01-01
comunicación de congreso
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG7): 59-66 (2008)
9812776117
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/18691
eng
http://www.patres-project.eu/images/8/8f/Evolang7.pdf
openAccess
World Scientific Publishing