Citizen Science involves volunteers working alongside scientists in research activities—enhancing scientific knowledge and engaging the public in meaningful ways across various fields.
Linguistic research largely rests on data collected in fieldwork and experiments. Linguists are dependent on the participation of sources willingly providing information about questions linguists want to answer.
The following linguistic Citizen Science projects have been developed by members of the URPP Language and Space:
- Schweizerdeutsch 1930 / 2020 - Finde deinen Dialekt in den 40 Wenker-Sätzen (Prof. Dr. Elvira Glaser, Sandro Bachmann, Carmen Raggenbass)
- gschmöis (Project members: Prof. Dr. Elvira Glaser, Sandro Bachmann, Anja Hasse)
- Citizen Linguistics (Project managers: Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt, Prof. Dr. Martin Volk)
- Language use in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) (Project manager: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark)
- Learning languages (Project manager: Prof. Dr. Sabine Stoll)
- Voices of Switzerland (Project managers: Prof. Dr. Elvira Glaser, Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark, Prof. Dr. Michele Loporcaro)
- Language documentation (Project members: Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel and many further collaborators at the Department of Comparative Linguistics)
- Language and Place (Project members: Prof. Dr. Ross Purves, Dr. Flurina Wartmann)
- GeoKokos - Identifying toponyms in a diachronic alpine text corpus (Project members: Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, Prof. Dr. Ross Purves, Dr. Simon Clematide)
- Science communication by laypersons for laypersons (Project members: PD Dr. Wolfgang Kesselheim, Dr. Christoph Hottiger)
