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lang-research-design
Use when defending the empirical design of a Language (LSA) manuscript on the terms of its subfield — elicitation and fieldwork, corpus construction, phonetic measurement, experiment, or the diachronic/typological sample. Language judges each kind of evidence by its own standards, and the design must support the theoretical claim. Defends the design; it does not run the analysis.
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# Research Design (lang-research-design)
*Language* is method-pluralist: it publishes elicited fieldwork, corpus studies, phonetic and
experimental work, computational modeling, and diachronic/typological comparison, and it judges each by
the standards of *its own subfield*. The job here is to make the design defensible to a general,
possibly cross-subfield, double-anonymous reviewer — and to show the evidence actually supports the
theoretical claim from `lang-theory-building`.
## When to trigger
- Choosing or justifying the design before data collection or analysis
- A reader questioned the elicitation, the consultant sample, corpus coverage, measurement, or the
typological sample
- Aligning the evidence with the analysis's predictions