Using Social Media Data to Investigate Morphosyntactic Variation and Change
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| Description: | Talk by Dr David Willis, Reader in Historical Linguistics, University of Cambridge |
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| Created: | 2017-12-06 16:14 |
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| Collection: |
Cambridge Language Sciences
Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2017 - Language Sciences and Tech Innovation |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | J.A. Walsh |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | historical linguistics; linguistics; Twitter; social media; |
| Abstract: | Data from social-media platforms such as Twitter have been used to investigate how new words diffuse geographically. However, they have been little used to answer core questions in historical linguistics and language variation and change, such as, what grammatical variation exists and how new grammatical variants spread. This talk will explore their use in this domain, demonstrating some of the methods being developed as part of the ESRC-funded project Investigating the diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations using social media, and will consider whether social media data provide a good proxy for spoken data. |
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