Today we looked at the application of cluster analysis and Multidimensional scaling on our dialect data from multiple languages, e.g. Bulgarian which Jelena Prokic used for her dissertation and my own Yue data.

We also had a fruitful discussion at our post-workshop lunch.

Interested in learning using quantitative methods to analyse dialect data? Jelena Prokic and I will be giving a summer school course on dialectometry in Leiden this summer! Anyone is welcome to participate!

More info and registration can be found here:
lotschool.nl/events/lot-sum…

Thank you so much for having me in Birmingham this week! I have learned a lot on spatial analysis and dialectometry, and I really enjoyed our discussions! Looking forward to seeing you and the others later this year!

How do people from Birmingham usually call 'lunch'? Do they say dinner?

A mom was just telling the kid that the seaotters would get their dinner in 20 minutes when it is actually lunch time, I just curious whether this is the dinner region