Speaker
Speaker
The Speaker represents a source of data, usually a
language consultant who is a native speaker of the language,
or a psycholinguistics experiment participant.
Each consultant has their own I-language and/or dialects which they
speak (unlike a published source which usually discusses an E-language
or standard or normal expected production of an utterance.)
Speakers can have any number of additional fields or metadata
that a team might use to help cluster or understand variation in data.
As "Informant" is not politically correct in many contexts, and "consultant" is
ambigious word outside of field work, the word "speaker" is used in communication with
users and in the url of db queries/api.
A speaker might also be associated to a user. In this case a speaker
has the same information as a user plus extra, some info (e.g. date of birth)
which must be kept confidential. Speaker's gravatar are locked to
default unless he/she wants to be public associated with/his username.
Speakers which are also users have permissions about the level of
access to the data (read only, add/edit).