Self-Organization of Creole Community in Spatial Language Dynamics

Creolization is a self-organization process of new language community. Thus far, a simulation study of the emergence of creoles has been reported in the mathematical framework. In this paper we introduce a spatial structure to the framework. We show that local creole communities are organized, and creolization may occur when language learners learn often from non-parental language speakers, in contrast to the non-spatial model.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SASO
• Authors: Makoto Nakamura, Takashi Hashimoto, Satoshi Tojo
• Keywords: Creolization, Local Creole Communities, Non-parental Language Speakers, SASO 2008, Self-Organizing Systems