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CHAPTER11 KYLEGORMANANDDANIELEZRAIOHNSONA sociolinguistwhohasgatheredsomuchdatatha tithasbecomedifficulttomakesenseoftheraw observationsmayturntographicalpresentati on,andtodescriptivestatistics,techniques fordistillingacollectionofdataintoafewke ynumericalvalues,allowingtheresearcherto focusonspecific,meaningfulpropertiesofth edataset(seelohnsoninpress).However,asoc iolinguistisrarelysatisfiedwithameresnap shotoflinguisticbehavior,anddesiresnotju sttodescribe,butalsotoevaluatehypotheses abouttheconnectionsbetweenlinguisticbeha vror,speakers, ( ,Lucas,Bayley,8rValli2001:43).Asocioling uistwhosuspectsthatwomenandmen111acertai nspeechcommunitydifferintherateatwhichth eyrealizethefinalconsonantofawordendingi n<ing>withcoronal[n]ratherthanvelar[1]]wouldco llecttokensofthesewordsinthespeechofwome nandmen, ,intheformofadescrip tivestatisticoranappropriategraph,coulds uggestthatwomendifferfrommenintherateatw hichtheyusethesecompetingvariants,theset ech, , ,however, ,asingleinterviewmakesuponlyatinyfractio nofanyspeaker slifetimeoflanguage, ,wheretherearealwaysmorepossiblesubjects torunorstimulitopresent, ,itisalwayspossiblethatthesamplediffersq uantitativelyf
CHAPTER 11 KYLE GORMAN AND DANIEL EZRA IOHNSON A sociolinguistwho hasgatheredso much datathat it hasbecomedifficult to make senseof the raw observationsmay turn to graphical presentation,and
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