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Social Media Data as a Naturalistic Test Bed for Studying Sociolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Patterns in Dutch Verb Spelling Errors
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Abstract
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| In the present paper, we review the benefits and challenges when using social media data to examine sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic patterns in the production of spelling errors on Dutch verb homophones. Unlike most previous research on verb homophones, which is often of an experimental nature, we examined teenagers’ private, informal chat conversations (see Surkyn et al., 2019, 2020, 2021). We found both new psycholinguistic patterns as well as patterns of homophone intrusions that were previously attested in an experimental context (see e.g., Sandra, Frisson, & Daems, 1999). Moreover, our research adds a social dimension to this primarily psycholinguistic field of research by testing the effect of gender, age and educational track. We argue that these social media data form an ideal testing ground for validating results from psycholinguistic experiments outside the lab and for revealing new insights into the social and cognitive processes underlying the spelling of Dutch verb homophones. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora (CMC-Corpora 2021)
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Publication
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Nijmegen
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Radboud Universiteit
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2021
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Volume/pages
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(2021)
, p. 90-94
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