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Language, Place, and Social Media: Geographic Dialect Alignment in New Zealand

Sidney Wong

New Zealand Reddit users link language to place and form contiguous speech communities with complex geographic alignment; Word2Vec embeddings reveal semantic variations and shifts in NZ English on a 4.26 billion word corpus.

arxiv:2604.15744 v1 · 2026-04-17 · cs.CL

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Users generally associate language with place, and place-related communities form a contiguous speech community, though alignment between geographic dialect communities and place-related communities remains complex. Advanced language modelling, including static and diachronic Word2Vec language embeddings, revealed semantic variation across place-based communities and meaningful semantic shifts within New Zealand English.

C2weakest assumption

That Reddit communities tied to places accurately represent geographic dialect communities and that user perceptions of language-place links correspond to measurable patterns in actual language use.

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[1] Abell, M. and Gordon, E. (1990). This objectionable colonial dialect': historical and contemporary attitudes to New Zealand speech. In Bell, A. and Holmes, J., editors, New Zealand Ways of Speaking En 1990

[2] They Had Us In the First Half 2019

[3] Adams, N. N. (2022). ' Scraping ' Reddit posts for academic research? Addressing some blurred lines of consent in growing internet-based research trend during the time of COVID -19. International jour 2022 · doi:10.1080/13645579.2022.2111816

[4] Agha, A. (2003). The social life of cultural value. Language & Communication , 23(3):231--273. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0271-5309(03)00012-0 2003 · doi:10.1016/s0271-5309(03)00012-0

[5] Agnew, J. A. (1987). Place and Politics : The Geographical Mediation of State and Society , volume 1 of Routeledge Library Editions : Political Geography . Routledge, Abingdon, England; New York, NY, 1987

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Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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arxiv: 2604.15744 · arxiv_version: 2604.15744v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.15744 · pith_short_12: VMGB2BVNJEHQ · pith_short_16: VMGB2BVNJEHQP6PM · pith_short_8: VMGB2BVN

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