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Dedicated to the study of language variation and change in American English, with special regard to the West, pop lyrics, and social media.

 

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the running shoe debate

April 08, 2016 by Lamont Antieau in corpus dialectology

Terms for "running shoes" in several corpora, particularly Twitter

 

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April 08, 2016 /Lamont Antieau
running shoes, tennis shoes, twitter, sneakers, pop music, harvard dialect survey, linguistic atlas of the middle rockies, rocky mountain english
corpus dialectology
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Eggcorns in tweets

November 23, 2015 by Lamont Antieau

An analysis of eggcorns found in a collection of tweets from 2013

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November 23, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
eggcorns in twitter part one, twitter, language variation
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First post

November 07, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in corpus dialectology, dialectology, language variation

My first post for this blog, which will look at linguistic variation and change in American dialects, popular music, and social media.

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November 07, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
language variation, lexical variation, corpus dialectology, linguistic atlas of the united states and canada, linguistic atlas of the middle rockies, linguistic atlas of the western states, enron corpus, frown corpus, twitter, brown corpus
corpus dialectology, dialectology, language variation
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