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Abstract

This paper presents the results of the application of a bit-string model of languages (Schulze and Stauffer 2005) to problems of taxonomic patterns. The questions addressed include the following: (1) Which parameters are minimally ne eded for the development of a taxonomic dynamics leading to the type of distribution of language family sizes currently attested (as measured in the i number of languages per family), which appears to be a power-law? (2) How may such a model be coupled with one of the dynamics of speaker populations leading to the type of language size seen today, which appears to follow a log-normal distribution?

@unpublished{wichmann06taxonomicDynamics,
  author={Soren Wichmann and Dietrich Stauffer and F. Welington S. Lima and Christian Schulze},
  title={Modelling linguistic taxonomic dynamics},
  year={2006},
  note={},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/wichmann06taxonomicDynamics.html}
}