How does language change as a lexical network? An investigation based on written Chinese word co-occurrence networks

• Heng Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

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• Xinying Chen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Foreign Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

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• Haitao Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lhtzju@yeah.net

  Affiliations Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China, Department of Linguistics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1724-4418

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