How do new words arise in social media? (IMAGE)

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How do new words arise in social media?

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Fig 2. Two trajectories of lexical innovations.

The usage rate per month of two changes (left) and two buzzes (right) represented by a rolling average with a three-month window (blue), as well as the result of the curve fitting (green). The three diffusion phases are represented by the grey shading in the background

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Tarrade et al., 2024, PLOS Complex Systems CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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