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- Title
Spatio-temporal variation of conversational utterances on Twitter.
- Authors
Alis, Christian M; Lim, May T
- Abstract
Conversations reflect the existing norms of a language. Previously, we found that utterance lengths in English fictional conversations in books and movies have shortened over a period of 200 years. In this work, we show that this shortening occurs even for a brief period of 3 years (September 2009-December 2012) using 229 million utterances from Twitter. Furthermore, the subset of geographically-tagged tweets from the United States show an inverse proportion between utterance lengths and the state-level percentage of the Black population. We argue that shortening of utterances can be explained by the increasing usage of jargon including coined words.
- Publication
PloS one, 2013, Vol 8, Issue 10, pe77793
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0077793