Informant (linguistics)
Encyclopedia
An informant or consultant in linguistics
is a native speaker
who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant's role is that of a senior interpreter, who demonstrates native pronunciation
, provides grammaticality
judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual
information to researchers from other cultures studying the language.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
is a native speaker
Native Speaker
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who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant's role is that of a senior interpreter, who demonstrates native pronunciation
Pronunciation
Pronunciation refers to the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If one is said to have "correct pronunciation", then it refers to both within a particular dialect....
, provides grammaticality
Grammaticality
In theoretical linguistics, grammaticality is the quality of a linguistic utterance of being grammatically well-formed. An * before a form is a mark that the cited form is ungrammatical....
judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual
Context (language use)
Context is a notion used in the language sciences in two different ways, namely as* verbal context* social context- Verbal context :...
information to researchers from other cultures studying the language.