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A Sociolinguistic Survey of the

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1 Dejing Zhuang: An introduction

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1.1 Piecing together the ethnolinguistic situation

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1.2 Demographics and non-linguistic background

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1.3 Linguistic background

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5.1 Answers to our research questions

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Appendix B: Informed Consent scripts

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Appendix C: Gedney chart and wordlist

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Appendix D: Wordlist, storyteller, and RTT participant screening forms

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Appendix E: SLQ instruments

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Appendix F: Average RTT scores

The following table lists the average raw scores for each RTT which was administered at each datapoint. A number of participants’ scores have been excluded from these averages as unrepresentative for various reasons. Below the score in parentheses are the standard deviation for that sample, and the number of participants’ scores which were used for this calculation; note that standard

deviation is not defined for a sample of only one participant. The table cells are colored salmon where one of the following is true: an average score is considered rather low (below 85%); a standard deviation is considered high (above 10%); or a sample size is relatively small (below ten).

In interpreting these values, Nahhas (2006b) makes several suggestions: data from sample sizes below ten is not always strongly reflective of the population as a whole, so confident conclusions should be based on a sample of at least ten

participants; standard deviations above 10% often indicate that some participants in the sample have had previous exposure to the reference variety of the RTT; small differences in average score between two RTTs, even if they are statistically

significant, are not always reflective of a difference in intelligibility between the two reference varieties. We have taken 80% as a cutoff point for intelligibility of the reference variety to be considered sufficient for use in language development.

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RTT Test Number

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