Adaptation of fictional and online conversations to communication media
Physics and Society
2013-01-09 v1 Computation and Language
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
Conversations allow the quick transfer of short bits of information and it is reasonable to expect that changes in communication medium affect how we converse. Using conversations in works of fiction and in an online social networking platform, we show that the utterance length of conversations is slowly shortening with time but adapts more strongly to the constraints of the communication medium. This indicates that the introduction of any new medium of communication can affect the way natural language evolves.
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@article{arxiv.1301.1429,
title = {Adaptation of fictional and online conversations to communication media},
author = {Christian M. Alis and May T. Lim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.1429},
year = {2013}
}