Alexander Lakaw

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Lakaw plays a role.

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Laitinen, Mikko, Jonas Lundberg, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw 2017 Revisiting weak ties: Using present-day social media data in variationist studies Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 303–325 | Chapter
This article makes use of big and rich present-day data to revisit the social network model in sociolinguistics. This model predicts that mobile individuals with ties outside a home community and subsequent loose-knit networks tend to promote the diffusion of linguistic innovations. The model has… read more