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In linguistics, a rememberer is a person who knows individual words or phrases (sometimes entire texts) of a dying or dead language but cannot use the language productively. It is contrasted with fluent or full speakers, who have a good command of the language, and semi-speakers, who have a partial command of it.

The distinction between fluent speakers and rememberers is important in fieldwork, but accurately determining where a member of a language community falls on the speaker-rememberer continuum can be challenging.

References

1. Grinevald, Colette; Bert, Michel (2011). The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages (PDF). Cambridge. p. 51.
2. Podesva, Robert J.; et al. (2014). Research Methods in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1107696358.
3. Chelliah, Shobhana L.; et al. (2010). Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 176–177. ISBN 978-9048190256.

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