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Variants of "devil" in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies

February 12, 2017 by Lamont Antieau in dialectology, lexical variation

Variants of "devil" elicited from informants from Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming for the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies.

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February 12, 2017 /Lamont Antieau
the devil in LAMR, variants of "devil" in LAMR, word search, #halloween
dialectology, lexical variation
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Words for house haunters in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies

October 27, 2016 by Lamont Antieau in corpus dialectology, language variation, lexical variation, Western American English

This post takes a look at variants of ghost in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies

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October 27, 2016 /Lamont Antieau
ghosts in LAMR, linguistic atlas of the middle rockies, variants of "ghost", word search, #halloween
corpus dialectology, language variation, lexical variation, Western American English
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Holiday names in pop music

March 27, 2016 by Lamont Antieau in lyric analysis

Holiday names in songs from Billboard's year-end Top 30 charts (1951-2015). Includes videos by Rosemary Clooney and Ella Mae Morse.

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March 27, 2016 /Lamont Antieau
holidays in pop music, #halloween
lyric analysis
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Reddit Ngram Viewer review →

January 05, 2016 by Lamont Antieau in review, corpus analysis

Reddit Ngram Viewer review, which consists of using the tool to analyze holiday variants that occur in the Reddit corpus

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January 05, 2016 /Lamont Antieau
holidays in reddit, corpus analysis, corpus tools, #halloween
review, corpus analysis
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