Social media enhances languages differentiation: a mathematical description

Understanding and predicting the evolution of competing languages is a topic of high interest in a world with more than 6000 languages competing in a highly connected environment. We consider a reasonable mathematical model describing a situation of competition between two languages and analyse the effect of the speakers' connectivity (i.e. social networks). Surprisingly, instead of homogenizing the system, a high degree of connectivity helps to introduce differentiation for the appropriate parameters.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Royal Society Open Science

• Publication date

  2017-05-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Linguistics, Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rsos.170094PMID 28573016PMCID 5451817
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Social media enhances languages differentiation: a mathematical description

  2017cited by this paper
• The possibility of coexistence and co-development in language competition: ecology–society computational model and simulation

  2016cited by this paper
• Pattern Formation on Networks: from Localised Activity to Turing Patterns

  2016cited by this paper
• Forging patterns and making waves from biology to geology: a commentary on Turing (1952) ‘The chemical basis of morphogenesis’

  2015cited by this paper
• The world's languages in crisis

  2015cited by this paper
• Dispersal-induced destabilization of metapopulations and oscillatory Turing patterns in ecological networks

  2013cited by this paper
• Mathematical analysis and numerical simulation of pattern formation under cross-diffusion

  2013cited by this paper
• Turing Patterns in a Predator-Prey System with Self-Diffusion

  2013influential reference
• The Turing bifurcation in network systems: Collective patterns and single differentiated nodes

  2012cited by this paper
• Language shift, bilingualism and the future of Britain's Celtic languages

  2010cited by this paper
• A Model of the Mechanisms of Language Extinction and Revitalization Strategies to Save Endangered Languages

  2010cited by this paper
• Cross-diffusion and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems.

  2009influential reference
• Turing patterns in network-organized activator–inhibitor systems

  2008influential reference
• Ecological Models of Language Competition

  2008influential reference
• Coexistence of Languages is possible

  2006influential reference
• Recent developments in computer simulations of language competition

  2006cited by this paper
• Interlinguistic similarity and language death dynamics

  2005cited by this paper
• The invasion of language: emergence, change and death.

  2005cited by this paper
• Modeling language competition

  2004cited by this paper
• Linguistics: Modelling the dynamics of language death

  2003cited by this paper
• Computational and evolutionary aspects of language

  2002cited by this paper
• Statistical mechanics of complex networks

  2001cited by this paper
• Emergence of scaling in random networks

  1999cited by this paper
• Mean-field theory for scale-free random networks

  1999cited by this paper
• Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks

  1999cited by this paper
• Internet: Diameter of the World-Wide Web

  1999cited by this paper
• Metapopulation dynamics

  1998cited by this paper
• On the global existence of a cross-diffusion system

  1998cited by this paper
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences is currently published by The Royal

  1951influential reference
• Brief communications

  year unknowncited by this paper

• Language competition on lattices

  2021cites this paper
• Dynamics of two languages competing on a network: a case study

  2021cites this paper
• Delay-induced patterns in a reaction–diffusion system on complex networks

  2021cites this paper
• Linguistic evolution driven by network heterogeneity and the Turing mechanism

  2020cites this paper
• Turing instability in nonlinear chemical oscillators coupled via an active medium

  2020cites this paper
• Modeling the competition between three language groups

  2020cites this paper
• Urbanity and the dynamics of language shift in Galicia

  2019cites this paper
• Turing patterns mediated by network topology in homogeneous active systems.

  2019cites this paper
• Social media enhances languages differentiation: a mathematical description

  2017cites this paper