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Abstract

An earlier study [24] concluded, based on computer simulations and some inferences from empirical data, that languages will change the more slowly the larger the population gets. We replicate this study using a more complete language model for simulations (the Schulze model combined with a Barabasi-Albert network) and a richer empirical dataset [12]. Our simulations show either a negligible or a strong dependence of language change on population sizes, depending on the parameter settings; while empirical data, like some of the simulations, show a negligible dependence.

@article{wichmann08languageChangePopulation,
  author={Soren Wichmann and Dietrich Stauffer and Christian Schulze and Eric W. Holman},
  title={Do Language Change Rates Depend on Population Size?},
  journal={Advances in Complex Systems},
  year={2008},
  month={June},
  volume={11},
  number={3},
  pages={357-369},
  doi={10.1142/S0219525908001684},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/wichmann08languageChangePopulation.html}
}