Best Practices in Sociophonetics Routledge -- Pub Date: 10/2010 Edited by Marianna Di Paolo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror Dedication To those who created and supported the alliance between sociolinguistics and phonetics which made this book possible: to William Labov, and to the memory of Peter Ladefoged and Leigh Lisker. Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Marianna Di Paolo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror 1 Chapter 2 Field Methods: gathering data, creating a corpus, and reporting your work Marianna Di Paolo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror 28 Chapter 3 Making a Field Recording Christopher Cieri 75 Chapter 4 Transcription Margaret Maclagan and Jennifer Hay 107 Chapter 5 Issues in Using Legacy Data Paulina Bounds, Naomi Palosaari, and William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. 136 Chapter 6 Analyzing Stops Paul Foulkes, Gerard Docherty, and Mark Jones 172 Chapter 7 Liquids 203 Eleanor Lawson, Jane Stuart-Smith, James M. Scobbie, Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Margaret Maclagan Chapter 8 Analyzing Vowels Marianna Di Paolo, Malcah Yaeger-Dror, and Alicia Beckford Wassink 233 Chapter 9 More on Vowels: Plotting and Normalization Dominic Watt, Anne Fabricius and Tyler Kendall 282 Chapter 10 Analyzing Prosody: Best Practices for the Analysis of Prosody Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Zsuzsanna Fagyal 317 Chapter 11 Acoustical Analysis of Voice Quality for Sociophonetic Purposes John H. Esling and Jerold A. Edmondson 345 Chapter 12 Experimental Speech Perception and Perceptual Dialectology Cynthia Clopper, Jen Hay, and Bartlomiej Plichta 388 Chapter 13 Working with Children Ghada Khattab and Julie Roberts 423 Chapter 14 Ascertaining Word Classes Betty S. Phillips 464 Chapter 15 Checking for Reliability Cynthia G. Clopper 493 Chapter 16 Statistical Analysis Jen Hay 518