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Creation of regions for dialect features using a cellular automaton
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Computer simulation of dialect feature diffusion
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This paper describes the independent construction and implementation of two cellular automata that model dialect feature diffusion as the adaptive aspect of the complex system of speech. We show how a feature, once established, can spread across an area, and how the distribution of a dialect feature as it stands in Linguistic Atlas data could either spread or diminish. Cellular automata use update rules to determine the status of a feature at a given location with respect to the status of its neighboring locations. In each iteration all locations in a matrix are evaluated, and then the new status for each one is displayed all at once. Throughout hundreds of iterations, we can watch regional distributional patterns emerge as a consequence of these simple update rules. We validate patterns with respect to the linguistic distributions known to occur in the Linguistic Atlas Project.
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P Philology. Linguistics; PE English; ZA4050 Electronic information resources
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URL: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/129177/
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Simulation of the complex system of cultural interaction: digital visualizations
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