Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu, Jean Leó Leonard

Languages in Space and Time

Models and Methods from Complex Systems Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates how complexity theory and statistical mechanics help define the language groups and model the language dynamics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 192mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108480659
• ISBN-10: 1108480659
• Artikelnr.: 59257285

Autorenporträt

Marco Patriarca got his PhD from the University of Perugia in 1993 on nonequilibrium classical and quantum diffusion. He is currently working as senior researcher at the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia. His areas of interest includes stochastic processes, diffusion processes, brownian motion , condensed matter, quantum mechanics and physics of language.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Language and languages
3. Comparison based on string metric
4. Historical glottometry
5. Introduction to languages dynamics
6. Languages evolution models
7. Languages competition models
Bibliography.