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Modelling the dynamics of language death
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“A core aim of the field is to understand how local interactions between individuals produce emergent macro-level outcomes (Castellano et al., 2009) such as consensus (Flache et al., 2017), shared norms (Centola & Baronchelli, 2015), and common linguistic conventions (Abrams & Strogatz, 2003).”
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- Authors
- Abrams, D. M., & Strogatz, S. H.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2003-08-21
- Volume
- 424
- Issue
- 6951
- Pages
- 900-900
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1994739812
- Cited by
- 517
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 100.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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