William Labov

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William Labov is affiliated with the following schools: Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania

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PhD Linguistics Columbia University
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According to Wikipedia, William Labov is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics.

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Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experience. (1997) (3140)
The social stratification of English in New York City (1969) (2897)
Principles Of Linguistic Change (1994) (1805)
Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular.@@@Sociolinguistic Patterns. (1975) (1522)
The social motivation of a sound change (1963) (1467)
Empirical foundations for a theory of language change (2014) (1116)
Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula. (1969) (1081)
Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors (1994) (1033)
The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change (1990) (1000)
Some Further Steps in Narrative Analysis (1997) (770)
The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology and sound change : a multimedia reference tool (2006) (757)
Therapeutic Discourse: Psychotherapy As Conversation (1976) (736)
THE LOGIC OF NONSTANDARD ENGLISH (1970) (632)
Some principles of linguistic methodology (1972) (619)
Transmission and Diffusion (2007) (551)
The Logic of Non-Standard English. (1969) (476)
Field methods of the Project on Linguistic Change and Variation (1981) (447)
Constraints on the agentless passive (1983) (440)
Spatial Networks as a Site for the Study of Language and Thought. (1975) (382)
The Atlas Of North American English (2005) (362)
Objectivity and commitment in linguistic science: The case of the Black English trial in Ann Arbor (1982) (342)
RESOLVING THE NEOGRAMMARIAN CONTROVERSY (1981) (337)
Locating Language in Time and Space (1980) (336)
The child as linguistic historian (1989) (318)
Principles of Linguistic Change: Cognitive and Cultural Factors (2010) (294)
The study of language in its social context (1970) (275)
A Study of the Non-Standard English of Negro and Puerto Rican Speakers in New York City. Volume I: Phonological and Grammatical Analysis. (1968) (255)
One Hundred Years of Sound Change in Philadelphia: Linear Incrementation, Reversal, and Reanalysis (2013) (247)
De facto segregation of black and white vernaculars (1986) (224)
On the uses of variable rules (1979) (198)
Negative Attraction and Negative Concord in English Grammar. (1972) (185)
Language Variation and Change (1989) (181)
Rules for Ritual Insults (1997) (180)
Near-mergers and the suspension of phonemic contrast (1991) (176)
Narrative pre-construction (2006) (175)
The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores (1997) (164)
The Study of Nonstandard English (1970) (153)
Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging? Papers from the NWAVE XIV Panel Discussion (1987) (131)
Properties of the sociolinguistic monitor (2011) (122)
HYPERCORRECTION BY THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS AS A FACTOR IN LINGUISTIC CHANGE (1985) (116)
6. Problems in the Analysis of Idioms (1980) (116)
A sociolinguistic perspective on sociophonetic research (2006) (114)
Learning to talk Philadelphian: Acquisition of short a by preschool children (1995) (112)
A Study of Non-Standard English. (1969) (107)
Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence. (1972) (98)
The linguistic consequences of being a lame (1973) (97)
What is a Linguistic Fact (1975) (94)
The exact description of a speech community (1989) (84)
Phonetics, phonology and social meaning (2017) (81)
Phonological Correlates of Social Stratification (1964) (81)
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation: The anatomy of style-shifting (2002) (78)
When Intuitions Fail (2003) (77)
The social origins of sound change (1979) (75)
Where Does the Linguistic Variable Stop? A Response to Beatriz Lavandera. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 44. (1978) (74)
Learning the Syntax of Questions (1978) (74)
Empirical Foundations of Linguistic Theory (1975) (73)
Principles of Linguistic Change; Volume 3; Cognitive and cultural factors (2010) (70)
The Effect of Social Mobility on Linguistic Behavior (1966) (70)
Testing listeners’ reactions to phonological markers of ethnic identity: a new method for sociolinguistic research (1986) (69)
2. Building on empirical foundations (1982) (69)
THE LINGUISTIC VARIABLE AS A STRUCTURAL UNIT. (1966) (61)
Towards a social science of language: papers in honour of William Labov (1999) (60)
THE REFLECTION OF SOCIAL PROCESSES IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURES (1968) (51)
Listeners' sensitivity to the frequency of sociolinguistic variables (2006) (46)
SYSTEMATIC RELATIONS OF STANDARD AND NON-STANDARD RULES IN THE GRAMMARS OF NEGRO SPEAKERS. (1967) (45)
The Phonetics of cat and mama (1978) (44)
What is to be learned: The community as the focus of social cognition (2012) (44)
Driving Forces in Linguistic Change (2003) (43)
Pursuing the cascade model (2003) (43)
THE SOCIAL SETTING OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE (1973) (39)
A NOTE ON THE RELATION OF READING FAILURE TO PEER-GROUP STATUS IN URBAN GHETTOS. (1967) (38)
UNENDANGERED DIALECT, ENDANGERED PEOPLE: THE CASE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH (2010) (38)
Quantitative Reasoning in Linguistics (2008) (34)
New Directions in Research (2003) (33)
When Ordinary Children Fail To Read. (2003) (33)
11. On the Use of the Present to Explain the Past (2013) (32)
On the Adequacy of natural Languages: I. The Development of Tense (1990) (30)
A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH USED BY NEGRO AND PUERTO RICAN SPEAKERS IN NEW YORK CITY. (1965) (29)
Competing systems in Philadelphia phonology (2016) (28)
The overestimation of functionalism (1987) (27)
Forks in the Road (2010) (26)
Preface: The acquisition of sociolinguistic variation (2013) (25)
Cognitive and cultural factors (2010) (24)
How I got into linguistics, and what I got out of it (2001) (23)
What is a reading error? (2010) (23)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: The isolation of contextual styles (2006) (23)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: 1966–2006 (2006) (22)
The role of African Americans in Philadelphia sound change (2014) (21)
Locating the Frontier Between Social and Psychological Factors in Linguistic Variation (1979) (20)
12. Applying our knowledge of African American English to the problem of raising reading levels in inner-cityschools (2001) (19)
L'etude de l'anglais non standard. (The Study of Nonstandard English). (1974) (17)
On The Adequacy Of Natural Languages (1977) (17)
The Language of Life and Death: S. T. Bindoff: “The death of Elizabeth” (2013) (17)
Mysteries of the substrate (2008) (17)
The discovery of the unexpected (2015) (16)
The sociophonetic orientation of the language learner (2014) (15)
THE PLACE OF LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN AMERICAN SOCIETY (1973) (15)
Afterword: Where are we now? (2016) (14)
Systematically misleading data from test questions (1976) (14)
Principios del cambio lingüístico (1996) (13)
African American Vernacular English and Reading (2015) (11)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: First approach to the structure of New York City English (2006) (11)
What is to be learned (2014) (11)
The use of language in the speech community (1968) (10)
Words Floating on the Surface of Sound Change (2010) (10)
Some Notes on the Role of Misperception in Language Learning (1996) (9)
Evidence for regular sound change in English dialect geography (1992) (9)
African American Phonology in a Philadelphia Community (2015) (9)
The regularity of regular sound change (2020) (9)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: Preface to the first edition (2006) (8)
Variation and change in language and society (1996) (8)
8. Lexicographic Definition in Descriptive Semantics (1980) (7)
Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (1997) (7)
The role of the Avant Garde in linguistic diffusion (2018) (7)
SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING STANDARD ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF NON-STANDARD DIALECTS. (1967) (6)
1. Semantics and Semiotics (1980) (6)
THE NON-STANDARD VERNACULAR OF THE NEGRO COMMUNITY--SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. (1967) (6)
The Language of Life and Death: Acknowledgments (2013) (6)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: The social stratification of (r) in New York City department stores (2006) (5)
The dialects of North American English (2006) (5)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: Class differentiation of the variables (2006) (5)
Speech Acts, Conversational Sequencing, and Rules@@@Therapeutic Discourse: Psychotherapy as Conversation. (1979) (5)
The effect of outliers on the perception of sound change (2010) (5)
A Glass Half Empty, a Glass Half Full@@@Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors (1996) (5)
D. A Linguist Looks At the Ebonics Debate (2005) (5)
Zone 1/2 (1980) (5)
Bridging the Gap: Dialect Boundaries and Regional Allegiance in Upstate New York (2007) (4)
TITLE INSTITUTION SPANS AGENCY PUB DATE NOTE PUB TYPE EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS IDENTIFIERS DOCUMENT RESUME FL 014 695 Labov , William Field Methods of the Project on Linguistic Change and Variation . Sociolinguistic Working Paper Number (2007) (4)
8. Predicting the Path of Sound Change (2019) (4)
L'apprentissage de la syntaxe des interrogations (1977) (4)
Introduction to Cognitive and Cultural Factors in Linguistic Change (2010) (3)
Ralph Fasold, Tense marking in Black English: a linguistic and social analysis . Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1972. Pp. 254. (1975) (3)
Uriel Weinreich: Builder on Empirical Foundations (2017) (3)
The Language of Life and Death: Narrative analysis (2013) (3)
The Several Logics of Quantification (1985) (3)
What's Been Done--When All's Been Said?@@@Therapeutic Discourse: Psychotherapy as Conversation. (1979) (3)
The fronting of back upgliding vowels (2006) (3)
Penelope Eckert, Linguistic variation as social practice. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Pp. xvi, 240. Hb $62.95, pb $28.95. (2002) (3)
Speech Acts and Conversations: Bringing Language Back into Sociology@@@Therapeutic Discourse: Psychotherapy as Conversation. (1979) (2)
3. On the Semantic Structure of Language (1980) (2)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: The structure of the New York City vowel system (2006) (2)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: Anonymous observations of casual speech (2006) (2)
Social interaction and discourse structures (1997) (2)
A Sociolinguistic Model@@@The Social Stratification of English in New York City (1966) (2)
Narratives of Uncontrollable Grief (2020) (2)
The restoration of post-vocalic /r/ (2006) (1)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: Glossary of linguistic symbols and terminology (2006) (1)
Self-evaluation and linguistic security (2006) (1)
Social Evaluation of the Northern Cities Shift (2010) (1)
A materialist response (2018) (1)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: Subjective evaluation of the variables (2006) (1)
Some parallels, accidental and expected (2017) (1)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: Other linguistic variables (2006) (1)
Voices of the Speech Community Six People I Have Learned From (2015) (1)
The Urban Language Series (1975) (1)
New York City and the Mid-Atlantic states (2006) (1)
9. Public discourse and the problem of social order (1986) (1)
The Language of Life and Death: Preface (2013) (1)
Phonological Atlas of North America. Prepared by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg, David Bowie, Atissa Banuazizi, Carol Orr, Anita Henderson, Joyce Albergottie, and Tom Maciejewski. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ home.html (1998) (1)
Classroom Correction Tests (1975) (1)
What Has Been Built on Empirical Foundations (2019) (1)
A Controlled Experiment on Vowel Identification (2010) (1)
The vowels of North American English: Maps of natural breaks in F1 and F2 (2006) (1)
The short-a and short-o configurations (2006) (0)
Sociolinguistic Studies@@@Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular@@@Sociolinguistic Patterns (1979) (0)
Analysis of the non-respondents: the television interview (2006) (0)
2. Travels through Semantic Space (1980) (0)
The Study of Variation (2020) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Gloria Stein: “They stoned the house” (2013) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Rose Norman: “The death of her younger sister” (2013) (0)
Nearly completed mergers (2006) (0)
Giving Voice to Despair and Defiance (2019) (0)
Psychological conflict in Negro American language behavior. An invited commentary. (1971) (0)
Principles of chain shifting and mergers (2006) (0)
Co-existent systems in African-American vernacular English (2021) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: The vernacular origin of epic style (2013) (0)
Rethinking Hart: From Open Texture to Prototype Theory—Analytic Philosophy Meets Cognitive Linguistics (2020) (0)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: The linguistic interview (2006) (0)
Index of subjects, city names, and persons (2006) (0)
Journal of Linguistic Geography (2012) (0)
The North American English vowel system (2006) (0)
12.Review of Vygotsky’s Thought and Language (1980) (0)
Lexical and grammatical maps (2006) (0)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: Questionnaire for the ALS Survey (2006) (0)
The Diffusion of Language from Place to Place (2010) (0)
7. Dictionaries of the Future: A Set of Parameters for Descriptive Semantics (1980) (0)
Foreword to Volume 1 (2013) (0)
The Binding Force in Segmental Phonology (2010) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Mary Costa: “The death of her youngest daughter” (2013) (0)
L'Apprentissage de la Syntaxe des interrogations (Learning the Syntax of Interrogations). (1977) (0)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: Distribution of the variables in apparent time (2006) (0)
The Diffusion of Language from Group to Group (2010) (0)
The findings of the Atlas of North American English: An overview (2006) (0)
Current trends in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics: An interview with William Labov (2013) (0)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: The survey of the Lower East Side (2006) (0)
Further analysis of the variables (2006) (0)
The Social Stratification of English in New York City: General attitudes towards the speech of New York City (2006) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: 2 Samuel: “The death of Absalom” (2013) (0)
Problems and methods of analysis (2006) (0)
The Gating Experiments (2010) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Margie Knott: “Her confrontation with the neighbors” (2013) (0)
The construction of isoglosses (2006) (0)
Foreword (2014) (0)
Failure and Peer-Group Status (1969) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: The narrative view of death and life (2013) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Cache County (2013) (0)
William Labov. Discurs d'acceptació (2012) (0)
A clear demonstration. (1973) (0)
The Philosophy of Reuben Hersh: A Nontechnical Assessment (2017) (0)
The boundaries of a grammar: inter-dialectal reactions to positive any more (2017) (0)
Preface to the second edition: forty years later (2006) (0)
5. Some Tasks for Semantics (1980) (0)
More Linguistics of the Sixties@@@A Survey of Linguistic Science@@@Linguistics in the 1970's@@@Advances in Psycholinguistics@@@Generative Studies in Historical Linguistics@@@Goals of Linguistic Theory@@@Linguistic Change and Generative Theory@@@Pragmatics of Natural Languages@@@Studies in Linguistic (1970) (0)
The inhibition of speech perception by linguistic categories. (1992) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Confrontations with death (2013) (0)
Articles on Sociolinguistics@@@Locating Language in Time and Space (1983) (0)
Printed in Great Britain On the uses of variable rules (2008) (0)
Methods of acoustic analysis (2006) (0)
9. [Soviet] Lexicology (1980) (0)
The out-of-town speakers (2006) (0)
Analysis of losses through moving of the MFY sample population (2006) (0)
North American mergers in progress (2006) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Thomas Babington Macaulay: “The death of Monmouth” (2013) (0)
Entrevista com William Labov (2013) (0)
William Labov - John H. & Margaret B. Fassitt Professor of Linguistics (* 1927) (2012) (0)
Yankee Cultural Imperialism and the Northern Cities Shift (2010) (0)
The Transmission Problem in Linguistic Change (2009) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: References (2013) (0)
13. Draft Proposal: on the Semantic Structure of Natural Language (1980) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Historians' use of narrative (2013) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Introduction to the language of life and death (2013) (0)
Phonological and grammatical analysis (1968) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: The escalation of violence (2013) (0)
The Language of Life and Death: Premonitions and communication with the dead (2013) (0)
Sampling and field methods (2006) (0)

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