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A Geographic Analysis of Lexical Variation in North American English Using Reddit Corpora.

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Title/Author:	A Geographic Analysis of Lexical Variation in North American English Using Reddit Corpora./
Author:	Hamre, Clayton.
Description:	1 online resource (454 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-08A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798381699555

A Geographic Analysis of Lexical Variation in North American English Using Reddit Corpora.
Hamre, Clayton.

A Geographic Analysis of Lexical Variation in North American English Using Reddit Corpora. - 1 online resource (454 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

In response to advances in quantitative methods and the rise of social media, a new field of online dialectology has emerged over the past decade, taking advantage of enormous volumes of corpus data available from a variety of digital sources. Despite being one the most active websites on the internet, Reddit has been underutilized in such work. In this project, I introduce Reddit as a source for the study of dialect geography, using city subreddits (such as /r/Miami or /r/chicago) to analyze lexical variation in North American English.With the Python package PRAW (Boe 2022), I extract a 215-million-word corpus from 153 North American city subreddits, supplemented by an 18-million-word corpus derived from 32 British city subreddits. I analyze the usage of 127 highly frequent lexical variables across city subreddits, and identify 49 lexical variables that exhibit significant patterns of geographic variation. I document the distribution of several variables not previously known to exhibit geographic variation, and demonstrate that the division between the US and Canada forms the most fundamental linguistic boundary in North American English, while also identifying eight dialect areas within the United States. Additionally, I examine several non-geographic factors linked to lexical variation, finding that the network structure of user participation explains a significant portion of lexical variation among city subreddits.This study is the first internet-based survey of lexical variation in North American English to cover both the US and Canada, as well as being the first North American dialect study to focus on high-frequency lexical items, and shows that Reddit is a viable source for the study of linguistic variation. Its results provide new insights into the relationship between American and Canadian English, and suggest that our understanding of linguistic variation in online settings can be advanced through a network analysis of connections among users.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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