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Area of Science:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Computational Social Science
  • Agent-Based Modeling

Background:

  • Language is fundamental to culture and human migration.
  • Understanding the interplay between migration and language evolution is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how agent migration influences language formation dynamics.
  • To explore different migration scenarios within the naming game model.

Main Methods:

  • Agent-based modeling simulation of the naming game.
  • Analysis of language dynamics under varying agent migration rules (all agents vs. multilingual agents).
  • Examination of factors like agent density and migration rates.

Main Results:

  • When all agents migrate, effective surface tension drives language coarsening, a robust phenomenon across various densities and rates.
  • When only multilingual agents migrate, monolingual islands form, with high migration rates leading to a spontaneously emerged common language without surface-tension-driven coarsening.
  • Static, dense populations exhibit slow, fragile coarsening easily disrupted by minimal migration, leading to rapid monolingual island formation.

Conclusions:

  • Migration is a key factor in language formation processes.
  • The specific migration rules (e.g., who migrates) and agent characteristics (e.g., density, mobility) critically determine the language formation outcome.
  • Further research is needed to precisely define the influence of agent density and mobility on migration-driven language evolution.