… joined the ACDH in December 2016 and is group leader of the long-term project Language Dynamics in Austria (DynAT) at the research unit Linguistics. His work focuses, on the one hand, on the lexicographic (including AI-assisted) processing of the materials of the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (WBÖ) and, on the other, on the variationist-linguistic analysis of historical and recent dialect data. He also contributes to the retro-digitization of the WBÖ as well as to the continuous expansion and enrichment of the WBÖ document database. As Principal Investigator, he leads the FWF project Bavarian Dialects of Austria and South Tyrol in the 20th Century – Quantitative Analyses Based on the WBÖ Corpus (BASyQ) (Project Number PAT1009925). In addition to this, he is working as a lecturer at the Department of German Philology at the University of Vienna.
He obtained his PhD in 2013 at the University of Freiburg (Germany) with a thesis on "Subjektive Dialekträume im alemannischen Dreiländereck" ("Subjective dialect areas in the Alemannic border triangle"), a study located in the field of folk dialectology. In the following years, he worked as a postdoc researcher at the University of Zurich in an interdisciplinary project (including the German department and the department of Geography) called Modelling morphosyntactic area formation in Swiss German (SynMod). The main goal of this project was to apply methods from GIScience to syntactic atlas data in order to test linguistic hypotheses and answer research questions, e.g. about different patterns of geographic distributions, dialect borders vs. transition zones etc.
His research interests include dialectology, sociolinguistics, lexicography, language change, language contact, syntax, folk linguistics, dialectometry, and GIS.
Recent projects
- DynAT – Language Dynamics in Austria
- WBÖ – Lexicographic Documentation of 20th-Century Bavarian Dialects
- Lexicography meets AI
- LIÖ – Lexical Information System Austria
- BASyQ – Bavarian Dialects of Austria and South Tyrol in the 20th Century – Quantitative Analyses Based on the WBÖ Corpus
Former projects
Publications
- LLM-Assisted Dialect Lexicography: Challenges and Opportunities in Processing Historical Bavarian Dialects. / Stöckle, Philipp; Elsner, Daniel; Koppensteiner, Wolfgang et al.
Electronic lexicography in the 21st century (eLex 2025). Intelligent Lexicography.: Proceedings of the eLex 2025 conference. Hrsg. / Iztok Kosem; Miloš Jakubíček; Medveď Marek; Karolina Zgaga; Špela Arhar Holdt; Tina Munda; Ana Salgado. Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o., 2025. S. 453-475. - 2 Beiträge in Wörterbuch der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich (WBÖ). Publiziert über das Lexikalische Informationssystem Österreich (LIÖ). / Stöckle, Philipp; Geyer, Ingeborg.
Wörterbuch der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich (WBÖ). Publiziert über das Lexikalische Informationssystem Österreich (LIÖ). 2025.
Publications (before ACDH)
- Scherrer, Yves; Stoeckle, Philipp (2016): A quantitative approach to Swiss German – Dialectometric analyses and comparisons of linguistic levels. In: Dialectologia et Geolinguistica 24, 92–125.
- Stoeckle, Philipp (2016): Dialect and identity: The Folk Linguistic Construction of Local Dialect Areas in the ‘Alemannic Border Triangle’. In: Rutten, Gijsbert; Horner, Kristine (Hg.): Metalinguistic Perspectives on Germanic Languages. European Case Studies from Past to Present. Oxford: Peter Lang, 157–184.
- Stoeckle, Philipp (2016): Horizontal and vertical variation in Swiss German morphosyntax. In: Côté, Marie-Hélène; Knooihuizen, Remco; Nerbonne, John (Hg.): The future of dialects. Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV. Berlin: Language Science Press, 195–215.
- Stoeckle, Philipp (2014): Subjektive Dialekträume im alemannischen Dreiländereck. Hildesheim: Olms.
- Hansen-Morath, Sandra; Stoeckle, Philipp (2014): Regionaldialekte im alemannischen Dreiländereck – ‚objektive‘ und ‚subjektive‘ Perspektiven. In: Bergmann, Pia; Birkner, Karin; Gilles, Peter; Spiekermann, Helmut; Streck, Tobias (Hg.): Sprache im Gebrauch: räumlich, zeitlich, interaktional. Festschrift für Peter Auer. Heidelberg: Winter, 175–194.
- Montgomery, Chris; Stoeckle, Philipp (2013): Geographical Information Systems and Perceptual Dialectology: A method for processing draw-a-map data. In: Journal of Linguistic Geography 1(1), 52–85.
- Hansen, Sandra; Schwarz, Christian; Stoeckle, Philipp; Streck, Tobias (Hg.) (2012): Dialectological and folk dialectological concepts of space. Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter.
- Stoeckle, Philipp (2012): The folk linguistic construction of local dialect areas – linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. In: Hansen, Sandra; Schwarz, Christian; Stoeckle, Philipp; Streck, Tobias (Hg.): Dialectological and folk dialectological concepts of space. Current methods and perspectives in sociolinguistic Research on dialect change. Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter, 142–163, 271–275.
- Stoeckle, Philipp; Svenstrup, Christoph H. (2011): Language variation and (de-)standardization processes in Germany. In: Kristiansen, Tore; Coupland, Niklas (Hg.): Standard Languages and Language Standards in a Changing Europe. Oslo: Novus, 83–90.
- Stoeckle, Philipp (2010): Subjektive Dialektgrenzen im alemannischen Dreiländereck. In: Anders, Christina Ada; Hundt, Markus; Lasch, Alexander (Hg.): Perceptual Dialectology. Neue Wege der Dialektologie. Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 291–315.