Presenters after a social dinner. There was a special session on panel studies at the recent International Conference on Methods in Dialectology XV in Groningen, Netherlands. The session, Panel Studies: Challenges, Food for Thought and Ways Forward, was co-organized by Suzanne Wagner (MSU) and Isabelle Buchstaller (University of Leipzig). Panel studies collect data from the same individuals at multiple time-points, and are a crucial tool for understanding how individual linguistic change intersects with community language change. Yet they are difficult to undertake, presenting a wealth of issues in data collection and analysis.
The participants included Patricia Cukor-Avila, Frans Gregersen, John Rickford, Malcah Yaeger-Dror and many others. Topics ranged from appropriate statistical and acoustic methods, to the changing interviewer-participant relationship, to making use of unexpected sources of data. The contributions to the session will appear in an edited volume to be published by Routledge Ltd, along with other specially commissioned chapters -- one of them from MSU Anthropology professor Chantal Tetreault.
The participants included Patricia Cukor-Avila, Frans Gregersen, John Rickford, Malcah Yaeger-Dror and many others. Topics ranged from appropriate statistical and acoustic methods, to the changing interviewer-participant relationship, to making use of unexpected sources of data. The contributions to the session will appear in an edited volume to be published by Routledge Ltd, along with other specially commissioned chapters -- one of them from MSU Anthropology professor Chantal Tetreault.
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