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The data presented in this book stem from recordings of sociolinguistic interviews with people from Carlisle. My fieldwork in the community took place in two major stages in February/March 2007 and February/March 2008 with the addition of three individual recordings in September 2009 and two further recordings in September 2010. In all, I made eighty recordings, recording a total of 109 speakers. The recordings lasted from around 25 to 90 minutes. Participants were recorded individually, in pairs and in one case in a group of three. In the following I discuss the sampling decisions, methods and interview procedure.

In the first section I discuss the social variables age, sex and social class as external motivations of change (cf. Labov 2001).