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Language Change Diffusion (2D): S-Curve Adoption on a Speaker Network

2D companion: a Watts–Strogatz speaker network diffuses a new word variant node by node, with a live S-curve adoption chart plotted alongside prestige, contact rate, network reach and seed count.

Society & Economics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategorySociety & Economics

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsDrag the innovation-prestige, contact-rate, network-reach and seed-speaker sliders, then use Reseed speakers, Pause or Randomize to watch a new word variant spread — or die out — across the network.

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Language Change: How a Word Variant Takes Over (3D)The 3D original this page companions — same diffusion model, orbitable network view.

Style-Shifting: Audience Design in Speech (2D)A different sociolinguistics mechanic — register switching by audience, not network diffusion. ⊞ All in Society & Economics →

This 2D companion drives the same speaker-network diffusion model as the 3D version through a plain canvas view: a force-laid-out Watts–Strogatz graph of 90 speakers spreads a new word variant node by node while a live S-curve chart plots the exact adoption percentage against generation number, making the superlinear-adoption mechanism behind real sound changes — and its dependence on prestige, contact rate and network reach — directly readable instead of only visually implied.

⚙ Under the hood

2D speaker-network diffusion lab with a Watts–Strogatz small-world graph, a live S-curve adoption chart, and prestige/contact-rate/network-reach/seed-count controls driving the same probability model as the 3D original.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install