Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science in Linguistics: New Ways to Study Non-Standard and Minority Languages
Published 12/16/2025
Keywords
- Crowdsourcing,
- Minority Language,
- Südtirol,
- Citizen Science,
- Crosslinguistic Studies
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Abstract
Crowdsourcing in linguistics has the potential of reaching a large number and a large vari-ety of speakers, as well as creating a geographically fine-grained, well-distributed net of data points. These opportunities, as well as challenges of questionnaire design, data validity and data processing are discussed here in reference to the project AlpiLinK (Rabanus et al. 2025). The citizen science project VinKiamo Südtirol connected to AlpiLinK shows how involvement of schools in the crowdsourcing effort can help improve data quantity and quality and have an impact on the participants also in terms of the dissemination of scientifically grounded concepts of linguistic diversity.