Hybrid Hashtags: #YouKnowYoureAKiwiWhen Your Tweet Contains Māori and English

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Hybrid Hashtags: #YouKnowYoureAKiwiWhen Your Tweet Contains Māori and English

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Twitter constitutes a rich resource for investigating language contact phenomena. In this paper, we report findings from the analysis of a large-scale diachronic corpus of over one million tweets, containing loanwords from te reo Maori, the indigenous language spoken in New Zealand, into (primarily, New Zealand) English. Our analysis focuses on hashtags comprising mixed-language resources (which we term hybrid hashtags), bringing together descriptive linguistic tools (investigating length, wo...

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Trye, David / Calude, Andreea S. / Bravo-Marquez, Felipe / Keegan, Te Taka Adrian Gregory

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13625

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language contact / loanwords / hashtags / hashtag half-life / Maori / New Zealand English / word embeddings / the language of social media

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