As a high school student, Ms. Merkel traveled from East Germany to Moscow to take part in a Russian language competition; Ms. Lagarde attended a prominent girl's school in suburban Washington, complete with an internship on Capitol Hill.
Will Academy voters be tempted to vote for "Amour" for best picture or best director and figure that some other film should as a result be given recognition in the less-heralded foreign language competition.
I finished the semester with an 8.5 average and won third place in a Chinese language competition.
We are here interested in the problem of language competition, i.e., the dynamics of language use among a population of interacting agents speaking different languages.
Models studying language dynamics range from social impact theory applied to language competition [1] to genetic approaches for the evolution of universal grammar [2].
The prestige of a language has been considered as one of the main factors affecting language competition since Labov's Sociolinguistic Patterns [22].
In a model of language competition that assumes the speakers to be monolingual, distinct languages are similarly predicted to survive only if they are spoken by distinct, partially unmixed populations [53].
In the future, it will be interesting to consider the extension of the Abrams-Strogatz model that includes bilingual speakers [19], [23], and compare the results with the ones presented in this paper in order to illustrate which is the role of bilingual agents in the dynamics of language competition from the viability theory perspective.
Such skills included experience from working as a tutor in French or doing well in a French-language competition.
(Ms. Holland's other Oscar nomination was for the 1985 film "Angry Harvest," which Germany had submitted for the foreign-language competition).
