Christopher M. Danforth
Christopher M. Danforth has 2 papers in our library, in 2015–2018, most of them on English, Historical linguistics & language change; often with Peter Sheridan Dodds.
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📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 3 citations in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Star rank #5459
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📚 Shelves 7 Arts and Humanities · 2 works Language and Linguistics · 2 works Social Sciences · 1 work Computer Science · 1 work Human-Computer Interaction · 1 work Cultural Studies · 1 work Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work
🧭 Topics 2 English · 2 works Historical linguistics & language change · 1 work
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- Is language evolution grinding to a halt? The scaling of lexical turbulence in English fiction suggests it is not (2015 · 22 citations)
The paper asks whether the English lexicon is still renewing itself. Earlier work by Petersen et al. reported that word births fell sharply and word deaths rose in the late 20th century. The authors re-examine that claim on the Google Books 2012 English Fiction corpus for 1800–2000. They chose this subset because… - English verb regularization in books and tweets (2018 · 19 citations)
The paper measures how far English speakers have moved from irregular past-tense forms (e.g., 'burnt') toward the regular -ed forms ('burned').
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- Is language evolution grinding to a halt? The scaling of lexical turbulence in English fiction suggests it is notEitan Adam Pechenick, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan DoddsarXiv:1503.03512 · 22 citations
- English verb regularization in books and tweetsTyler J. Gray; Andrew J. Reagan; Peter Sheridan Dodds;, Christopher M. DanforthPLoS ONE · 19 citations
- Gender Disparities in LLM-Based Intimate Partner Violence Detection (original ↗)Tabia Tanzin Prama et al.2026 · Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Natural… · no summary yet
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