Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data

Established models of the spatial diffusion of linguistic innovations vary in their relationship to population density. Differences in prediction between the gravity models (Trudgill 1974), in which probability of diffusion is sensitive to settlement size, and the traditional wave models can be chal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gopal, D, Blaxter, T, Willis, D, Leemann, A
Other Authors: Ziegler, A
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2021