Linguistics and English Language Seminar: Human-AI Hybrid Language Production – Evidence from a Multi-Dialectal, Longitudinal Corpus
| Dates: | 7 May 2026 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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Speaker: speaker: Dr Gan Qiao, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Abstract: With large language models increasingly embedded in everyday writing, language production is becoming a human-AI collaborative process. This talk examines how AI assistance shapes linguistic variation across English dialects and contexts. I present a multi-dialectal, longitudinal corpus of 693 participants from five English dialects writing under four AI-assistance conditions, and report effects on lexical diversity, syntactic complexity, and stylistic variation. I further examine linguistic complexity trade-offs in hybrid human-AI production and the role of social factors in mediating AI effects. The findings show how AI is reshaping patterns of language production and variation, with implications for the future of AI assistance and linguistic diversity.
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