... set to converse with every other individual in the population in a preprocessing minor cycle. (Newborn HISTORICAL CHANGE IN LANGUAGE 79 changes in a language. For example, can the simulation ... vol.9, nos.3 and 4, September and December 1966] Historical Change in Language Using Monte Carlo Techniques* by Sheldon Klein, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and System ... of group, language change, has been successfully tested in several computer runs using an extremely simple model of linguistic interaction. (The system, and any model tested within its framework,...