Review the Teaching American Speech by Taylor
Then,Response to the following questions:
1. Evaluate how the results of your activity might be affected by the Observer's Paradox.
2. Imagine that you were going to conduct a larger scale version of this type of study, with both more informants and more time. Try to devise a different methodology which would allow you to investigate regional variation, but which might help address the problem of the Observer's Paradox.
3. Compare your proposed methods to those we discussed in class for Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and Southern Atlantic States and Dictionary of American Regional English.