26.1299, Qs: How to Refer to Linguistic Data Source

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Subject: 26.1299, Qs: How to Refer to Linguistic Data Source

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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:29:59
From: Victoria Sferlazza [viclazza at yahoo.com]
Subject: How to Refer to Linguistic Data Source

 
I am currently an independent scholar researching the lesser-known languages
of Haitian-Creole, Sicilian and Yiddish. I might want to collect some samples
of oral language from native speakers. 
Linguists used to refer to people, often ordinary speakers, from whom
linguistic data was obtained as ''informants.'' I remember reading the use of
this term was replaced by another, deemed more sociologically correct. Can you
tell me the technical term used nowadays to refer to people who provide oral
linguistic data to researchers?
 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics



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