| Date of Birth | 04-December-1927 | |
| Place of Birth |
Rutherford (Bergen County, New Jersey) |
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| Nationality | United States of America | |
| Also know as | William D. Labov | |
| Profession | Scientist, Professor | |
| 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. He is employed as a professor in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania, and pursues research in sociolinguistics, language change, and dialectology. He plans to retire at the end of Spring 2014. | ||
Awards by William Labov |
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