Centers and peripheries: Network roles in language change

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2061-2079

  Fagyal, Zsuzsanna ^a   Swarup, Samarth ^b   Escobar, Anna María ^a   Gasser, Les ^a   Lakkaraju, Kiran ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Diffusion; Language change; Popularity; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952428188     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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