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SUBMITTER: Bokanyi E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6837183 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Royal Society open science 20191002 10
Scaling properties of language are a useful tool for understanding generative processes in texts. We investigate the scaling relations in citywise Twitter corpora coming from the metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas of the United States. We observe a slightly superlinear urban scaling with the city population for the total volume of the tweets and words created in a city. We then find that a certain core vocabulary follows the scaling relationship of that of the bulk text, but most wo ...[more]