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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?

@article{wichmann06taxonomicDynamics,
  author={Soren Wichmann and Dietrich Stauffer and F. Welington S. Lima and Christian Schulze},
  title={Modelling linguistic taxonomic dynamics},
  journal={Transactions of the Philological Society},
  year={2007},
  month={July},
  volume={105},
  number={2},
  pages={126-147},
  doi={10.1111/j.1467-968X.2007.00184.x},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/wichmann06taxonomicDynamics.html}
}

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