Welcome!

Research Methods: Home

Welcome to the webpage accompanying Chapter 20 "Analysing and interpreting variation in the Sociolinguistic tradition" by Sali A. Tagliamonte!

- Chapter overview

- The variable rule program

       - What is the variable rule program?

       - Standard descriptions of the variable rule program

- Conducting an analysis with the variable rule program

       - Phonological variables: consonant cluster simplification

       - Operating the variable rule program

               - The token file

               - The condition file

               - The cell file

               - The result file

                       - Exercise: spotting interaction

               - Step-up/step-down analysis

                       - Important terms

               - Three essential lines of evidence

                       - Exercise

- Critical evaluation

- Exercises

       - 'prefer to' vs. 'prefer over': datafile

       - Solution

               - Token file

               - Condition file

               - Result file

                       - What information can be gathered from the result file?

               - Doing cross-tabs

                       - Cross-tabulating "variety" and "time"

                       - Cross-tabulating "variety" and "voice"

               - Binomial Up & Down

                       - Results in table format

       - Links to further exercises

- Additional literature

- Links

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