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Publication details [#57583]

Castelló, Xavier, Lucía Loureiro-Porto and Maxi San Miguel. 2013. Agent-based models of language competition. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (221) : 21–51.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language maintenance | language shift | language status | social network

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper employs computer simulations to evaluate two divergent agent-based models of language competition, establishing the impact of relative language prestige and speakers' language loyalty.