Opening open science to all: Demystifying reproducibility and transparency practices in linguistic research

In recent years, numerous fields of research have seen a push for increased reproducibility andtransparency. As a result, specific transparency practices have emerged, such as open accesspublishing, preregistration, sharing data, analyses, and code, performing study replications, anddeclaring positionality and conflicts of interest. While many agree that open science practicesrepresent a positive step forward in improving scientific rigor, these practices, by and large, havenot been adopted in the field of linguistics (Bochynska et al., 2023). Few, if any, researchershave had explicit instruction on the practices of open science as part of their professionaltraining. Nonetheless, today’s speech researcher is expected to be up to date on the currentprotocols of open science in order incorporate the methodological practices aimed at improvingreproducibility/replicability. The present work intends to help make open science practicesunderstandable and accessible to researchers in linguistics from all backgrounds and at everystage, from students/early career researchers to senior researchers and advisors. We outline eightspecific open science practices that linguists can adopt to make their research more open,transparent, inclusive, and accessible to a wider audience.