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As I'm reading this I'm getting angry. Not because of Labov himself (he's simply denouncing this crap), but because this sort of adult that he's describing is the one that I'd expect screaming with children.
And I'm glad that nowadays this sort of researcher would be barred from doing field work.
The rabbit approach was genius. Just like hiding himself behind the cloth hangers in another study; sure, nowadays this raises ethical concerns, but in his times it was the way to register spontaneous speech.