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...

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

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

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...

Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 82, 123, 177, 179. Labov (2007), p. 359. Labov (2007), p. 373. Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 145, 54, 56, 234 Labov...

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...

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...

serve to increasingly distinguish such accents from American ones. William Labov et al.'s 2006 Atlas of North American English put together a scattergram...

usually known as uniformitarianism. In linguistics, Uriel Weinreich, William Labov and Marvin Herzog appear to have been the first to expressly elaborate...