Modelling endangered languages: The effects of bilingualism and social structure

Minett, James W.; Wang, William Yang

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2007.04.001

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“…Stauffer et al (2007) propose microscopic or individual based versions of the AS model and apply simulation techniques instead of averaging over the whole population. Mira and Paredes (2005), Minett and Wang (2008), Heinsalu et al (2014) and others extend the A-S model by additionally considering bilinguals. Pinasco and Romanelli (2006) propose a Lotka-Volterra type model inspired by population dynamics to model language competition and also show the possibility of coexistence.…”

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“…intergenerational language transmission. 4 In Wickström (2014) it is illustrated that the A-S model and its extension by Minett and Wang (2008) can be reformulated in terms of the general model presented in Wickström (2005). Furthermore the spatial model in Patriarca and Leppänen (2004) can be interpreted as a version of the Wickstr'om framework with two subpopulations I and II, which value language A differently.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To maintain a bilingual equilibrium Minett and Wang (2008) suggest a simple intervention strategy: whenever the amount of speakers of the minority language drops below some threshold value, then the status of the minority language or some other model parameters has to be increased. That such a ''dramatic intervention'' (Fernando et al, 2010, p. 51) is quite unrealistic, was already mentioned in Minett and Wang (2008). It can be seen as a theoretical approximation of a more sophisticated intervention, which starts to increase the minority language status when the numbers come close the threshold.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the model this is realized by increasing three corresponding parameters at year 100. Citing Fernando et al (2010, p. 51) when reviewing Minett and Wang (2008) one may ask: ''How such a dramatic intervention could be achieved is not explained''.…”

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“…Depending on the parameter that is changed as well as on the size of the jump, such a ''dramatic intervention'' might be rather unrealistic. In their adoption of the model proposed in Minett and Wang (2008), Bernard and Martin (2012) also include the opportunity for policy makers to alter the status of the minority language. In contrast to the previous approaches, they assume that the variation of the status at each time step is bounded.…”

Section: Language Competition Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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h i g h l i g h t s• A dynamic control model for the competition between two languages is developed.• Family formation and intergenerational language transmission are modeled explicitly.• Investments into status planning can be used to support the minority language.• If bilingualism is valued high enough, survival of both languages can be optimal.• Optimal steady states depend on initial distribution of speakers. a b s t r a c tWe develop a dynamic language competition model with dynamic state intervention. Parents choose the language(s) to raise their children based on the communicational value of each language as well as on their emotional attachment to the languages at hand. Languages are thus conceptualized as tools for communication as well as carriers of cultural identity. The model includes a high and a low status language, and children can be brought up as monolinguals or bilinguals. Through investment into language policies, the status of the minority language can be increased. The aim of the intervention is to preserve the minority language in a bilingual subpopulation at low costs. We investigate the dynamic structure of the optimally controlled system as well as the optimal policy, identify stable equilibria and provide numerical case studies.

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We work on a model that has succeeded in describing real cases of coexistence of two languages within a closed community of speakers, taking into account bilingualism and incorporating a parameter to measure the distance between languages. The dynamics of this model depend on a characteristic exponent, which weighs the power of the size of a group of speakers to attract new members. So far, this model had been solved only when this characteristic exponent is greater than 1. In this article, we have managed to solve the nature of the stability of all the possible situations for this characteristic exponent, that is, when it is less or equal than 1 and covering also the situations produced when it is 0 or negative. We interpret these new situations and find that, even in such exotic scenarios, there are configurations of the resulting societies where all the languages coexist.

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2014

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Modelling endangered languages: The effects of bilingualism and social structure

Cited by 126 publications

References 23 publications

Optimal language policy for the preservation of a minority language

Optimal language policy for the preservation of a minority language

Coexistence in exotic scenarios of a modifiedAbrams–Strogatz model

Models of language evolution and change

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