What is it about?
An alternative dialectometry using PCA on sites. Besides a novel focus on Bavarian-Swabian, Pickl's diss. is noteworthy for eschewing Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) in favor of Principal Component Aanalysis (PCA), which I am sceptical about, and also revisting the Wörter & Sachen (Words and Things) paradigm.
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It is important that a variety of dialetometric approaches be pursued, and Pickl thinks independently and argues his case forcefully.
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Pickl's diss. is noteworthy for eschewing Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) in favor of Principal Component Aanalysis (PCA), which I am sceptical about, and also revisting the Wörter & Sachen (Words and Things) paradigm, which strikes me as very valuable as one attempts to link dialectology to the more general study of culture.
Professor John Nerbonne
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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This page is a summary of: Simon Pickl. 2013. Probabilistische Geolinguistik. Geostatistische Analysen lexikalischer Variation in Bayerisch-Schwaben, Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/zrs-2015-0022.
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