In this last extension [18], and in the same parameter setting studied by Abrams and Strogatz, introducing bilingualism keeps the coexistence of both languages unstable.
The analytical study of the model and the fitting to real data from the competition between Quechua-Spanish, Scottish Gaelic-English and Welsh-English, predict that the coexistence of two languages is unstable, irrespective of the prestige of the languages and their initial density of speakers in the model, in contrast to the evidence that bilingual societies exist today.
He was particularly interested in Derrida's notion that not only is language too unstable to pinpoint any absolute truth; human identity itself is the malleable product of language.
But language is unstable, meaning-wise that is.
Barriers of access to HIV/AIDS services comprised inadequate management of guidelines and referral systems, discriminatory attitudes, language differences, unstable legal status, and financial hardship.
On the other hand, there are other stressors in exile, which are permanently present such as language barriers, unstable residence status, being blocked from working etc.
Secondly, not all of our patients underwent a nutritional assessment (patients not giving consent, patients unstable or due to language barrier) and within the assessed patients we did not have SGA and handgrip data for every patient.
We thus give evidence of the Abrams and Strogatz remark: language coexistence is unstable if we consider a fixed prestige, but introducing the prestige as a control variable of the model enables the maintenance of a bilingual society, where both languages have a density above a critical value.
Differences in cognitive and language findings between the stable and the unstable ASD group in our cohort should be interpreted with care and regarded as an exploratory finding.
Some of the people he helps to house are mentally unstable, and one has to wonder whether this kind of language might propel them to do things that are really destructive and that could potentially be extremely dangerous".
Second, we examined the cognitive and language correlates of children with a stable versus an unstable diagnosis of ASD.
