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This chapter focuses on methodology, presenting two studies which explicitly address the research questions presented in Chapter 1, and outlines the methodology employed in the empirical analysis of variation and change in Gascon. The chapter outlines the phonological and phonetic variables that will constitute the focus of the analyses, as well as information pertaining to data collection (fieldwork site selection, informant sampling, corpus construction) and data analysis (acoustic phonetic techniques, auditory coding, statistical analysis). The language and dialect death studies are both sociophonetic in nature, involving primarily an acoustic phonetic analysis with rigorous adherence both to analytic best practices and to a Labovian variationist sociolinguistic research methodology.
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Mooney, D. (2023). Methodological Considerations. In: Language and Dialect Death. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51101-1_5
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