Ao3 with theories

• Some studies have based their findings on anecdotal evidence or their own assumptions rather than actual empirical evidence.
• What is wrong with the sample size?

  They are very small and often make generalisations.
• Some researchers only examine speakers in one specific contextsand then make generalisations about how groups of people uselanguage?
• Some researchers presume that all members of particular groups are the same.
• One of the limitations of older studies was that technology was not as available.
• a03 of milroy study


  only looked at one community and didnt consider other communities