William Labov

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gptkb:Linguistic_Society_of_America_Lifetime_Achievement_Award
gptkbp:birthDate 1927-12-04
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Rutherford,_New_Jersey,_USA
gptkbp:degree gptkb:PhD
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Uriel_Weinreich
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Paul_Kiparsky
gptkb:Charles_Boberg
gptkb:Gregory_Guy
gptkb:John_Rickford
gptkb:Penelope_Eckert
gptkb:Sali_Tagliamonte
gptkb:Shana_Poplack
gptkb:Walt_Wolfram
gptkbp:education gptkb:Columbia_University
gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:employer gptkb:University_of_Pennsylvania
gptkbp:field linguistics
sociolinguistics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label William Labov
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gptkb:Gregory_Guy
gptkb:John_Rickford
gptkb:Penelope_Eckert
gptkb:Sali_Tagliamonte
gptkb:Shana_Poplack
gptkb:Walt_Wolfram
sociolinguistics
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Noam_Chomsky
gptkb:Leonard_Bloomfield
gptkb:Roman_Jakobson
gptkb:Uriel_Weinreich
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Labov's_department_store_study
gptkb:Labov–Sankoff_constraints
gptkb:Martha's_Vineyard_study
gptkb:The_Social_Stratification_of_English_in_New_York_City
Labovian sociolinguistics
founder of variationist sociolinguistics
study of language variation and change
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gptkb:Linguistic_Society_of_America
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Language_in_the_Inner_City
gptkb:Principles_of_Linguistic_Change
gptkb:Sociolinguistic_Patterns
gptkb:The_Atlas_of_North_American_English
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:linguist
gptkb:professor
gptkbp:position Professor Emeritus
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Teresa_Labov
gptkbp:thesisTitle gptkb:The_Social_Motivation_of_a_Sound_Change
gptkbp:thesisYear 1964
gptkbp:website https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/
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