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Research Article

From tweets to trends: analyzing sociolinguistic variation and change using the Twitter Corpus of English in Hong Kong (TCOEHK)

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Received 09 Sep 2022, Accepted 21 Aug 2023, Published online: 18 Oct 2023

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