Sociomeeting: Bartoli’s areal norms revisited: an agent-based modeling approach
For this research, computational agent-based modeling and simulation is used to evaluate the linguist Matteo Bartoli’s areal norms regarding the relationship between language change and spatial features. To achieve this, a simple modeling algorithm was developed to allow the transmission of innovative linguistic elements within a network based on European geographical data. The results obtained show differences between propagation patterns of items originating from and reaching more connected, more isolated and more peripheral regions. These outcomes support Bartoli’s theory, including regarding West Iberian languages (such as Portuguese and Galician) and their sometimes archaizing tendencies.
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