Panel Studies of Variation and Change

Introduction
Isabelle Buchstaller and Suzanne Evans Wagner

I. Methodological conundrums in building, sharing and analyzing panel corpora




Before there were corpora: The evolution of the Montreal French project as a longitudinal study
Gillian Sankoff




Alternative sources of panel study data: Opportunities, caveats and suggestions
Christopher Cieri and Malcah Yaeger-Dror




On the utility of composite indices in longitudinal language study: The case of African American Language
Janneke Van Hofwegen and Walt Wolfram

II. Key life-stage events across the life-span




Longitudinal sociophonetic analysis: What to expect when working with child and adolescent data
Mary Kohn and Charlie Farrington




The influence of age on estimating sound change acoustically from longitudinal data
Ulrich Reubold and Jonathan Harrington

III. Stylistic determinants of linguistic malleability




Comparing speech samples: On the challenge of comparability in panel studies of language change in real time
Frans Gregersen, Torben Juel Jensen and Nicolai Pharao




The effect of small Ns and gaps in contact on panel survey data
Patricia Cukor-Avila and Guy Bailey




What makes a panel study work? Researcher and participant in real time
Suzanne Evans Wagner and Sali A. Tagliamonte

IV. Interdisciplinary approaches




Ethnographic perspectives on panel studies and longitudinal research
Chantal Tetreault




Longitudinal studies in sociolinguistics and SLA: Bridging two parallel routes

Helene Blondeau