Formation of languages; Equality, hierarchy and teachers

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Tuncay C.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C, cilt.18, sa.6, ss.1061-1070, 2007 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 18 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2007
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1142/s0129183107011121
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1061-1070
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.