Labov, William

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Labov, William

(born Dec. 4, 1927, Rutherford, N.J., U.S.) U.S. linguist. After working for many years as an industrial chemist, Labov began graduate work in 1961, focusing on regional and class differences in English pronunciation on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and in New York City, and ways to quantify phonetic change and variation. Most of his later research dealt with the same issues in increasingly sophisticated ways, culminating in his monumental Principles of Linguistic Change (1994). The discovery that American English pronunciation was becoming regionally more rather than less divergent countered popular belief and attracted the attention of many outside his field.

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No references found			Labov, William 1966 The social stratification of English in New York City. The historical sociolinguistics of elite accent change: on why RP is ... by Trudgill, Peter / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies Labov, William 1963 "The social motivation of a sound change", Word 19: 273-309. Investigating dialectal variation in the English of Nigerian ... by Akande, Akinmade Timothy / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies Labov, William 1972 Language in the inner city: Studies in the Black American vernacular. Is reanimation of voices possible? Pragmatics of reported speech in ... by Wlodarczyk Matylda / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies			Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications Laboratory Laboratory Animals laboratory coordinate system laboratory fume hood Laboratory INstrument Computer laboratory pack film laboratory sample Laboratory Vessels, Chemical Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench Laboratory Work Laborde, Alden James LaborFest LaborNet Labouchere, Henry du Pré Laboulbeniales labour labour economics labour law Labour Parliament Labour Party Labour Party in Great Britain labour union Labourbe, Jeanne Marie Labov, William Labrador Labrador Basin Labrador Current Labrador Iron Ore Belt Labrador retriever Labrador spar Labrador-Ungava Labradorite Labradoritite Labre, St. Benedict Labridae Labriola, Antonio Labrousse, Ernest Camille Labrouste, Henri labrum Labtech Notebook Labuan Labuda, Gerard laburnum Labuza, Theodore P. LabVIEW Labyrinth labyrinth fish labyrinth fret Labyrinth Packing			labourer Labourers labouring labouring labouring labouring the point labouring the point labouring the point labouring under labouring under labouring under labourious labourism labourist labourists Labourite Labourites labours labours labours Labours of Hercules labours the point labours the point labours the point labours under labours under labours under laboursaving LaBoutiqueDuNet Labov Labov, William LABP LABPN Labr labra labra labra Labradoodle labradoodles Labrador Labrador Labrador Labrador Labrador Labrador (dog) Labrador (dog) Labrador (dog) Labrador Airways Canada Labrador Basin Labrador Current Labrador Current Labrador dog Labrador dog Labrador dog Labrador dogs Labrador dogs Labrador Duck Labrador Extreme Waves Experiment Labrador feldspar Labrador Ice Margin Experiment Labrador Institute Advisory Board

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