Viability and resilience of languages in competition.

We study the viability and resilience of languages, using a simple dynamical model of two languages in competition. Assuming that public action can modify the prestige of a language in order to avoid language extinction, we analyze two cases: (i) the prestige can only take two values, (ii) it can ta...

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Main Authors: Laetitia Chapel, Xavier Castelló, Claire Bernard, Guillaume Deffuant, Víctor M Eguíluz, Sophie Martin, Maxi San Miguel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2811194?pdf=render