The simulation

We are testing the effects of activity on attenuated constituents. We want to illustrate the behavior of meta-vocables as attenuation increases.

After much experimentation with the model, we have settled on an exemplary simulation that best demonstrates our assumptions about linguistic interactions.

We first set the attenuation so that constituents will attenuate up to a three to one ratio (figure 6.9).

  

Figure 6.9: In our simulation, constituents can be attenuated up to a 3 to 1 ratio. The darkest area indicates that constituents in that region do not have havean attenuation bias.

Notice that the darkest portion of the grid indicates that constituents occupying the upper part of the vocables grid have no attenuation therefore cannot display a first-order phase transition.

We run the simulation around the critical point of state change for constituents with a three to one attenuation ratio but not the critical point of the other constituents. We then let it settle for many steps.