Social media enhances languages differentiation: a mathematical description

Understanding and predicting the evolution of competing languages is a topic of high interest in a world with more than 6000 languages competing in a highly connected environment. We consider a reasonable mathematical model describing a situation of competition between two languages and analyse the...

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Autores principales: Vidal-Franco, Ignacio, Guiu-Souto, Jacobo, Muñuzuri, Alberto P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Physics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5451817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28573016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170094
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author Vidal-Franco, Ignacio
Guiu-Souto, Jacobo
Muñuzuri, Alberto P.
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description Understanding and predicting the evolution of competing languages is a topic of high interest in a world with more than 6000 languages competing in a highly connected environment. We consider a reasonable mathematical model describing a situation of competition between two languages and analyse the effect of the speakers' connectivity (i.e. social networks). Surprisingly, instead of homogenizing the system, a high degree of connectivity helps to introduce differentiation for the appropriate parameters.
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spelling pubmed-54518172017-06-01 Social media enhances languages differentiation: a mathematical description Vidal-Franco, Ignacio Guiu-Souto, Jacobo Muñuzuri, Alberto P. R Soc Open Sci Physics Understanding and predicting the evolution of competing languages is a topic of high interest in a world with more than 6000 languages competing in a highly connected environment. We consider a reasonable mathematical model describing a situation of competition between two languages and analyse the effect of the speakers' connectivity (i.e. social networks). Surprisingly, instead of homogenizing the system, a high degree of connectivity helps to introduce differentiation for the appropriate parameters. The Royal Society Publishing 2017-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5451817/ /pubmed/28573016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170094 Text en © 2017 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5451817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28573016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170094
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