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SUMMARY:Using Social Media to Investigate Linguistic Variation and Change 
 - David Willis (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20171121T161500Z
DTEND:20171121T164500Z
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CONTACT:Guy Edward Toh Emerson
DESCRIPTION:Data from social-media platforms such as Twitter have been use
 d to investigate how new words diffuse geographically. However\, they have
  been little used to answer core questions in historical linguistics and l
 anguage 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 par
 t of the ESRC-funded project _Investigating the diffusion of morphosyntact
 ic innovations using social media_\, and will consider whether social medi
 a data provide a good proxy for spoken data.
LOCATION:Cripps Court\, Magdalene College
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