Modeling the emergence of contact languages.

Contact languages are born out of the non-trivial interaction of two (or more) parent languages. Nowadays, the enhanced possibility of mobility and communication allows for a strong mixing of languages and cultures, thus raising the issue of whether there are any pure languages or cultures that are...

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Main Authors: Francesca Tria, Vito D P Servedio, Salikoko S Mufwene, Vittorio Loreto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4398412?pdf=render

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