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Abstract

Creole is one of the main topics in various fields concerning the language origin and the language change, such as sociolinguistics, the developmental psychology of language, paleoanthropology and so on. Our purpose in this paper is to develop an evolutionary theory of language to study the emergence of creole. We discuss how the emergence of creole is dealt with in the perspective of population dynamics. The proposal of evolutionary equations is a modification of the language dynamics equations by Komarova et al. We show experimental results, in which we could observe the emergence of creole. Furthermore, we analyze the condition of creolization in terms of similarity among languages. We conclude that a creole becomes dominant when pre-existing languages are not similar to each other and rather similar to the newly appeared language (would-be-creole); however the new language must not be too similar, in which case pre-existing languages remain and coexist.

Keywords: Population Dynamics, Creole, Similarity among Languages, Language Dynamics Equations

@inproceedings{nakamura03esslli,
  author={Makoto Nakamura and Takashi Hashimoto and Satoshi Tojo},
  title={Creole Viewed from Population Dynamics},
  year={2003},
  pages={95-104},
  address={Vienna},
  editor={Simon Kirby},
  booktitle={Proceedings of Language Evolution and Computation Workshop/Course at ESSLLI},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/nakamura03esslli.html},
  keywords={Population Dynamics, Creole, Similarity among Languages, Language Dynamics Equations}
}

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