Self-Organization of Creole Community in a Scale-Free Network

Creolization is a self-organization process of new language community. Thus far, a simulation study of the emergence of creoles has been reported in a mathematical framework. In this paper we introduce a scale-free network to the framework. We show that local creole communities are organized, regardless of the degree of exposure to nonparental languages, in contrast to the non-spatial model, and that hub agents affect forming communities.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: SASO
• Authors: Makoto Nakamura, Takashi Hashimoto, Satoshi Tojo
• Keywords: Local Creole Communities, Mathematical Framework, SASO 2009, Self-organization Process, Self-Organizing Systems