If jakob grimm, who developed what has come to be known as grimm's law, were analyzing the historical relationships among the so-called dialects of chinese (such as cantonese and mandarin), what data would he be looking for in his linguistic fieldwork?

Given the answer choices, the correct answer would be:d) how the speakers of each dialect pronounce different words with similar meanings in the several dialects. The reason for this is that he is attempting to find similarities between these dialects. By finding similar meanings of words, he can achieve this goal.