1. Introduction Devyani Sharma and Robert J. Podesva; Part I. Data Collection: 2. Ethics in linguistic research Penelope Eckert; 3. Judgment data Carson Schütze and Jon Sprouse; 4. Fieldwork for language description Shobhana Chelliah; 5. Population samples Isabelle Buchstaller and Ghada Khattab; 6. Surveys and interviews Natalie Schilling; 7. Experimental research design Rebekha Abbuhl, Susan Gass and Alison Mackey; 8. Experimental paradigms in psycholinguistics Elsi Kaiser; 9. Sound recordings: acoustic and articulatory data Robert J. Podesva and Elizabeth Zsiga; 10. Ethnography and recording interaction Erez Levon; 11. Using historical texts Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los; Part II. Data Processing and Statistical Analysis: 12. Transcription Naomi Nagy and Devyani Sharma; 13. Creating and using corpora Stefan Th. Gries and John Newman; 14. Descriptive statistics Daniel Ezra Johnson; 15. Basic significance testing Stefan Th. Gries; 16. Multivariate statistics R. Harald Baayen; Part III. Foundations for Linguistic Data Analysis: 17. Acoustic analysis Paul Boersma; 18. Constructing and supporting a linguistic analysis John Beavers and Peter Sells; 19. Modelling in the language sciences Willem Zuidema and Bart de Boer; 20. Variation analysis James Walker; 21. Discourse analysis Susan Ehrlich and Tanya Romaniuk; 22. Studying language over time Hélène Blondeau.