William Labov (/ləˈboʊv/ lə-BOHV; born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics...

typical speech community can be a small town, but sociolinguists such as William Labov claim that a large metropolitan area, for example New York City, can...

vocabulary appears only around Boston. A 2006 study co-authored by William Labov claims that the accent remains relatively stable, though a 2018 study...

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its surrounding metropolitan area. It is described by sociolinguist William Labov as the most recognizable regional dialect in North America. Its pronunciation...

West was pioneered by linguists such as William Labov in the US and Basil Bernstein in the UK. In the 1960s, William Stewart and Heinz Kloss introduced the...

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field of sociolinguistics, the term Observer’s Paradox was coined by William Labov, who stated with regard to the term: The aim of linguistic research...

University in Montreal. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania under William Labov, and later collaborated with him and Sharon Ash in the preparation of...

to maintain their Midland and North Central accents. Sociolinguist William Labov theorizes that this separation reflects a political divide and a controlled...

hypercorrection in terms of pronunciation (phonology). For example, William Labov noted that all of the English speakers he studied in New York City in...

social stratification in English is William Labov's 1966 study of the variable pronunciation of r in New York City. Labov went to three New York City department...

change.[citation needed] The sociolinguist Jennifer Coates, following William Labov, describes linguistic change as occurring in the context of linguistic...

increasingly distinguish such accents from American ones. Similarly, William Labov et al.'s 2006 Atlas of North American English identified these three...

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 316. Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), p. 50. Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 69–73. Thomas (2004), p. 310. Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), p. 105. Labov, Ash &...

situation in which different people vary in naming objects. For example, William Labov studied this effect using illustrations of different drinking vessels...

variation and its correlation with sociological categories, such as William Labov's 1963 paper "The social motivation of a sound change," led to the foundation...

Labov, William (2007). "Transmission and Diffusion" (PDF). Language. 83 (2): 344–387. doi:10.1353/lan.2007.0082. JSTOR 40070845. S2CID 6255506. Labov...

either consciously or subconsciously, thereby creating a new style. William Labov first introduced the concept of style in the context of sociolinguistics...

conducting interviews with ordinary people as well as experts such as William Labov. In the United States, the documentary was broadcast in several parts...

distance. Earlier sociolinguistic research was primarily influenced by William Labov, who studied style-shifting as a function of attention paid to speech...

States and Canada. It is the result of a large-scale survey by linguists William Labov, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg. Speech data was collected, mainly during...

regional dialects of Eastern New England and New York City. Sociolinguist William Labov et al. describe that such "r-less pronunciation, following Received...

of Pennsylvania is the home institution of pioneering sociolinguist William Labov. Philadelphia English shares certain features with New York City English...

whether it is with regard to one's ethnicity, age, gender, etc. As William Labov once said, "the sociolinguistic view ... is that we are programmed to...

his death in 1982, and subsequently married American sociolinguist William Labov in 1993. She is the mother of sociologist Alice Goffman. In 1986 she...

prestigious. The concept of covert prestige was first introduced by linguist William Labov, when he observed speakers preferring to use a nonstandard dialect,...

collaboration with such notable scholars as Noam Chomsky (Erdős number 4), William Labov (3), Mark Liberman (3), Geoffrey Pullum (3), or Ivan Sag (4). There...

study designed to test the Curvilinear principle as referred to by William Labov, through careful gathering and analysis of research on language variants...