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URL: http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0702031

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Authoritative: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2007.02.071   (Publisher's PDF... likely be available here.)

Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702031

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Abstract

Using the Schulze model for Monte Carlo simulations of language competition, we include a barrier between the top half and the bottom half of the lattice. We check under which conditions two different languages evolve as dominating in the two halves.

@article{schulze07languageCompetition,
  author={Christian Schulze and Dietrich Stauffer},
  title={Competition of languages in the presence of a barrier},
  journal={Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications},
  year={2007},
  month={6},
  volume={379},
  number={2},
  pages={661-664},
  doi={10.1016/j.physa.2007.02.071},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/schulze07languageCompetition.html}
}