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Random walk is not limited to atoms and suspended particles, to colonizers and ragweed. Not only drunkards move forward blindly; abstract objects can move in a random way too.
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Vogl, G. (2019). Language Invasion and Language Death. In: Adventure Diffusion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04681-1_8
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