| Issue |
EPL
Volume 82, Number 2, April 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 20004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/82/20004 | |
| Published online | 28 March 2008 | |
The physics of randomness and regularities for languages in terms of random matrices
Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University - 06531 Ankara, Turkey
Corresponding author: caglart@metu.edu.tr
Received:
24
October
2007
Accepted:
29
February
2008
The physics of randomness and regularities for languages (mother tongues) and their lifetimes and family trees and for the second languages (bilinguals) are studied in terms of two processes: random multiplicative noise and fragmentation. We start with various random initial worlds and come out with regularities which are all similar to the present empirical data for the above-mentioned terms.
PACS: 02.50.-r – Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics / 02.70.Uu – Applications of Monte Carlo methods
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