AI RESEARCH
Language, Place, and Social Media: Geographic Dialect Alignment in New Zealand
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.15744v1 Announce Type: new This thesis investigates geographic dialect alignment in place-informed social media communities, focussing on New Zealand-related Reddit communities. By integrating qualitative analyses of user perceptions with computational methods, the study examines how language use reflects place identity and patterns of language variation and change based on user-informed lexical, morphosyntactic, and semantic variables.