Neologisms are epidemic: Modeling the life cycle of neologisms in China 2008-2016

• Menghan Jiang ,

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

  * E-mail: menghan.jiang@connect.polyu.hk (MJ); churen.huang@polyu.edu.hk (CRH)

  Affiliations Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, Beijing, China, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5005-147X

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• Xiang Ying Shen,

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

  Affiliations Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Shenzhen JL Computational Science And Applied Research Institute, Shenzhen, China

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• Kathleen Ahrens,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, Research Centre for Professional Communication in English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

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• Chu-Ren Huang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: menghan.jiang@connect.polyu.hk (MJ); churen.huang@polyu.edu.hk (CRH)

  Affiliations Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, HK PolyU-PKU Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics, Hong Kong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8526-5520

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