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. 2011 Jun 22;278(1713):1770-2; discussion 1773-6.
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2581. Epub 2011 Mar 23.

Population-level neutral model already explains linguistic patterns

R Alexander Bentley  1 , Paul Ormerod, Stephen Shennan
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Population-level neutral model already explains linguistic patterns

R Alexander Bentley et al. Proc Biol Sci. .
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Figure 1.
The effect of the simple memory parameter on replacement rate under the simple neutral model, with N = 1000, and μ=10%. Here we consider an original vocabulary of 100 popular words, and how those words are replaced over time under the model (note that an ‘S’ curve does not follow from the simpler version of the model, where m = 1). Dashed line, m = 1; thick grey line, m = 5; thin grey line, m = 10; thin black line, m = 15; thick black line, m = 20.
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