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Modelling cultural shift: application to language decline and extinction

Social Simulation Conference (2014 : Barcelona, Spain). Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference held at Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain), September 1­5, 2014: 10th Artificial Economics Conference AE10th Conference of the European Social Simulation association ESSA 1st Simulating the Past to Understand Human History SPUHHH

Cultural shift is present in many aspects of human history. Here we present a model developed to study the particular case of language shift when a minority language is in competition with another language, which is perceived by the population as being socially and economically more advantageous (Isern and Fort, J. R. Soc. Interface 2014). We show that this model can describe satisfactorily the decline on the fraction of Welsh speakers over the last century. We also apply our language shift model as an interaction term into a reaction-diffusion equation and use it to predict the spread of retreat of the area of prevalence of the Welsh language. We find that the predictions are consistent with observational data

Miguel, Amblard, Barceló & Madella (eds.) Advances in Computational Social Science and Social Simulation Barcelona: Autònoma University of Barcelona, 2014

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Laboratori d’Arqueologia Quantitativa

Autor: Isern Sardó, Neus
Fort, Joaquim
Data: 2014
Resum: Social Simulation Conference (2014 : Barcelona, Spain). Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference held at Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain), September 1­5, 2014: 10th Artificial Economics Conference AE10th Conference of the European Social Simulation association ESSA 1st Simulating the Past to Understand Human History SPUHHH
Cultural shift is present in many aspects of human history. Here we present a model developed to study the particular case of language shift when a minority language is in competition with another language, which is perceived by the population as being socially and economically more advantageous (Isern and Fort, J. R. Soc. Interface 2014). We show that this model can describe satisfactorily the decline on the fraction of Welsh speakers over the last century. We also apply our language shift model as an interaction term into a reaction-diffusion equation and use it to predict the spread of retreat of the area of prevalence of the Welsh language. We find that the predictions are consistent with observational data
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Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/15421
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Laboratori d’Arqueologia Quantitativa
Col·lecció: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/128241
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És part de: Miguel, Amblard, Barceló & Madella (eds.) Advances in Computational Social Science and Social Simulation Barcelona: Autònoma University of Barcelona, 2014
Drets: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
URI Drets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Matèria: Minories lingüístiques -- Models matemàtics
Linguistic minorities -- Mathematical models
Equacions de reacció-difusió
Reaction-diffusion equations
Títol: Modelling cultural shift: application to language decline and extinction
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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