Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • The aims of the Survey of Spoken Hungarian (SSH)
  • The role of the sociolinguistic interview in the Survey
  • Is completeness our objective?
  • On the selection of research questions
  • The rest of this manual
  • On the selection of informants
  • Field workers
  • What to do about illiterate informants
  • Primary and secondary data
  • References
• Phonological section
  • Research tools
  • Research topics in phonology
  • References
• Morphological, syntactic and lexical section
  • Research topics in morphology
  • Research topics in syntax
  • Three lexical issues
  • Other items collected
  • References
• Guided conversation
  • The Observer's paradox and the microphone
  • On the role of the field worker
  • Conversation modules
  • The network of modules
  • Practical hints on the guided conversation
• General instructions
  • The relation between informant and field worker and the confidential treatment of data
  • After completing the interview
• Research tools
  • Cards
  • Reading passages
• Research tools
  • Cards
  • Reading passages
  • Minimal pairs
  • Same or different?
    • Instructions
    • Contents of the test tape
  • Word lists
  • Which is correct?
    • Instruction to field workers:
    • Transcript of the tape recording
  • How do you say it?
  • Questions
  • Fill in the right word
  • The reporter's test
  • What does demográfia mean?
  • Conversation modules
    • The mandatory ones:
    • Optional verbatim modules:
    • Neither verbatim nor mandatory modules:
• The processing of data
  • Transcription of guided conversations
    • The basic philosophy
    • Format conventions
    • Sample transcription
  • The coding of test-like material
  • Some envisaged applications of the system
  • References