Anything goes?

Dürscheid, Christa; Stark, Elisabeth

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“…This is remarkable, because it is often claimed that in text messages everything is possible, but see [49][50][51] for evidence that syntactic restrictions also hold in this type of data. Even if we have a lot of CS in the multilingual corpus, they do not seem to be random: once a language (or a grammar) has been chosen for the syntactic computation of an extended projection, all the functional heads of this projection have to conform to the chosen language.…”

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The Role of Functional Heads in Code-Switching Evidence from Swiss Text Messages (sms4science.ch)

Robert-Tissot

Morel

2017

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Abstract:This study aims to test two principles of code-switching (CS) formulated by González Vilbazo (2005): The Principle of the Functional Restriction (PFR) and the Principle of Agreement (PA). The first states that a code-switch between the morphological exponents of functional heads belonging to the same extended projection of a lexical category (N • or V • ) is not possible. The second claims that inside a phrase, agreement requirements have to be satisfied, regardless of the language providing the lexical material. The corpus on which we tested these hypotheses consists of 25,947 authentic text messages collected in Switzerland in 2009 and 2010. In our corpus, the PA is maintained. The PFR also seems to hold, even if data is limited. Interestingly, contradicting examples can be explained by phonological principles or the sociolinguistic background of the authors, who are not native speakers. Overall, the evidence found in spontaneously written non-standard data like text messages seems to confirm the validity of the two principles.

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The Role of Functional Heads in Code-Switching Evidence from Swiss Text Messages (sms4science.ch)

Robert-Tissot

Morel

2017

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Lörres, Möppes, and the Swiss. (Re)Discovering regional patterns in anonymous social media data

Purschke

Hovy

2019

J. of Ling. Geography

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We study regional similarities and differences in language use on an anonymous mobile chat application in the German-speaking area. We use a neural network on 2.3 million online conversations to automatically learn representations of words and cities. These linguistic-use-based representations capture regional distinctions in a high-dimensional vector space that can be clustered and visualized to discover patterns in the data. We find that the resulting regional patterns are closely linked to the traditional division of German dialects, even though most of the conversations are written in standard German. The resulting maps correspond to traditional dialect divisions and language-external spatial structures, with a few notable exceptions that can be explained through external factors.Our method also facilitates two qualitative analyses, allowing us to discover geographically-pertinent words for various regional levels, as well as creating regional group-specific style profiles based on various linguistic resources. The results of our study strongly suggest the existence of region-specific patterns of language use (“digital regiolects”) representing distinctive strategies of linguistic stylization in relation to linguistic resources and topics. As a methodological contribution, we show how linguistic theory can drive the application and direction of neural network-based representation learning, and how their judicious application provides the basis for qualitative analysis of large-scale data collections.

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Le statut variationnel du sujet clitique dans deux corpus de la Suisse romande

Robert-Tissot

2018

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Anything goes?

Cited by 8 publications

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The Role of Functional Heads in Code-Switching Evidence from Swiss Text Messages (sms4science.ch)

The Role of Functional Heads in Code-Switching Evidence from Swiss Text Messages (sms4science.ch)

Lörres, Möppes, and the Swiss. (Re)Discovering regional patterns in anonymous social media data

Le statut variationnel du sujet clitique dans deux corpus de la Suisse romande

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