Modeling language shift

2017/04/20 by Anne Kandler, James Steele · 15 citations
Arts and Humanities · Chemistry · Social Sciences · #Anthropology #Chemistry #Computer science #Demography #Diversity (politics) #Extinction (optical mineralogy) #Language and cultural evolution #Language shift #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Population #Sociology #Space (punctuation) #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1073/pnas.1703509114

published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(19), 4851-4853 (National Academy of Sciences)

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Abstract

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Citations

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• The shape and tempo of language evolution
• Outline of a theory of diglossia
• The world's languages in crisis

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