Abstract Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature.
Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) …

The close relationship between language variation and the nature of social ties among
people has been the focus of long-standing commentary in linguistics. A central puzzle in …

The present study analyzes the phenomenon of linguistic accommodation, ie the adaptation
of one's language use to that of one's conversation partner. In a large corpus of private …

We introduce a framework for quantifying semantic variation of common words in
Communities of Practice and in sets of topic-related communities. We show that while some …

When people talk, they tend to adopt the behaviors, gestures, and language of their
conversational partners. This" accommodation" to one's partners is largely automatic, but the …

In conversation, speakers tend to “accommodate” or “align” to their partners, changing the
style and substance of their communications to be more similar to their partners' utterances …

New words are regularly introduced to communities, yet not all of these words persist in a
community's lexicon. Among the many factors contributing to lexical change, we focus on the …

To what extent do personal attributes affect the way we are spoken to? Answering this
question requires the precise reproduction of a conversational context except for one …

Massive digital datasets, such as social media data, are a promising source to study social
and cultural phenomena. They provide the opportunity to study language use and behavior …

Linguistic style matching (LSM) in conversations can be reflective of several aspects of
social influence such as power or persuasion. However, how LSM relates to the outcomes of …