Stauffer, D.; Schulze, C.; Lima, F.W.S.; Wichmann, S.; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 371 (2006) 2, pp. 719-724
The bit-string model of Schulze and Stauffer [Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 16 (2005) 781] is applied to non-equilibrium situations and then gives better agreement with the empirical distribution of language sizes. Here the size is the number of people having this language as mother tongue. In contrast,...