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Chapter 4 - Methodology and Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2023

Wiebke H. Ahlers
Wiebke H. Ahlers
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Universität Dortmund
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Chapter 4 illustrates and discusses in detail the steps taken to evaluate the research questions. It first clarifies the methodological approach and then introduces the study design. The declared aim is to create a study that combines the larger number of tokens per speaker created by an experimental framework with the sample diversity and natural environment needed for sociolinguistic analyses. Further sections deal with the sample and the procedure. In this study, seventy-nine speakers with various gender, ethnicity, and age profiles were asked to complete naming tasks, a reading task, a re-narration and a free interview with a meta commentary section.

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picture namingreading passagenarrationmeta commentaryAustin
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Consonantal Sound Change in American English
An Analysis of Clustered Sibilants
 , pp. 98 - 119
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Methodology and Data
  • Wiebke H. Ahlers, Universität Dortmund
  • Book: Consonantal Sound Change in American English
  • Online publication: 10 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009071055.004
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  • Methodology and Data
  • Wiebke H. Ahlers, Universität Dortmund
  • Book: Consonantal Sound Change in American English
  • Online publication: 10 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009071055.004
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  • Methodology and Data
  • Wiebke H. Ahlers, Universität Dortmund
  • Book: Consonantal Sound Change in American English
  • Online publication: 10 August 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009071055.004
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