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	William Labov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Labov (born December 4, 1927) is a professor in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania.
		He is widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of quantitative sociolinguistics and pursues research in sociolinguistics and dialectology.
		For his MA thesis he completed a study of change in the dialect of Martha's Vineyard, which was presented before the Linguistic Society of America to great acclaim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Labov (302 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Labov’s new work, which is called “The Atlas of North American English,” constitutes the first coast-to-coast charting of all the major dialects spoken in the continental United States and Canada.
		Labov explained his contention that the city’s dropped “r” has its origins in posh British speech: when F.D.R. dropped his “r”s (“The only thing we have to feah is feah itself”) and Katharine Hepburn dropped hers (“My, she was yah”), it sounded upper class.
		Labov explained that locals in such areas as northern Ohio and Michigan traditionally spoke precise English because they wanted to distinguish themselves from the speakers of Southern dialects in their states—a split that seems to go back to the Civil War.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/talk/051114ta_talk_seabrook (890 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Sociolinguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Labov is often regarded as the founder of the study of sociolinguistics.
		Women, on the whole, deem this to disrupt the flow of conversation and not (Eder’s 1990) as a means of upholding one’s hierarchical status in the conversation.
		Labov, William (1972), Language in the Inner City.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sociolinguistics (2843 words)

	Narrative Psychology: Theorists and Key Figures H-I-J-K-L
		William James, the oldest son of Henry James (1811-1882)and Mary Walsh, was born in New York City in 1842.
		William James was initially torn between the study of painting and science, particularly medicine and physiology.
		William Labov was born December 4, 1927 in Rutherford, NJ.
	web.lemoyne.edu /~hevern/nr-theorists-hijkl.html (3258 words)

	Logistic Regression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1972 William Labov, the founder of sociolinguistics, investigated the pronunciation of /r/ at the ends of words in different social classes in New York.
		Labov noticed that New York speech was changing, and he asked whether the changes had anything to do with social class.
		In each of these Labov identified an article on sale on the fourth floor, and then asked one of the salespeople where he could find it.
	odur.let.rug.nl /nerbonne/teach/stats/eng-labs/logist-regr.html (531 words)

	Taalkunde van de straat
		Labov verklaart zijn voorkeur voor 'echte taal' uit het feit dat hij pas laat aan zijn taalkundestudie begon – hij was drieëndertig.
		Labov noemde dit de 'paradox van de observator' (en andere taalkundigen noemen het de 'paradox van Labov'): de onderzoeker wil de taal observeren die mensen gebruiken als ze niet geobserveerd worden.
		Labov ontdekte dat de stoelendans in veel noordelijke Amerikaanse steden weer een nieuwe ronde lijkt te zijn ingezet.
	www.vanoostendorp.nl /linguist/labov.html (1752 words)

	William Labov Home Page
		Labov, S. Ash and C. Boberg, The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, phonology and sound change.
		3/1/02 For an overall view of the goals and methods of the research project, see W. Labov and B. Baker, Testing the effectiveness of an individualized reading program for African-American, Euro-American and Latino inner city children.
		This is a poster session prepared for a meeting of IERI project directors in November 2001.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~wlabov/home.html (1337 words)

	VOA Wordmaster - January 19, 2005 - Sound Change, Part 2
		WILLIAM LABOV: "Well, one of the things that social psychology has told us, and many other branches of study, is that listening passively to the radio and television doesn't change your behavior.
		WILLIAM LABOV: "Yes, the difference between men and women is really important, and it's an astonishingly powerful force in most of the changes that we've talked about.
		WILLIAM LABOV: "Well, people used to think that the American dialects are the result of all the immigrants coming in.
	www.manythings.org /voa/wm/wm286.html (858 words)

	NYU Department of Linguistics: Syllabi
		Labov, William. 1972. The social stratification of (r) in New York City department stores.
		Labov, William. 1972. The study of language in its social context. In Sociolinguistics, ed.
		Labov, William. 1994. The study of change in progress: Observations in apparent time. Principles of linguistic change, Vol.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/lingu/courses/syllabi/1510/1510_04f.html (877 words)

	William Labov
		Labov's new work, which is called 'The Atlas of North American English,' constitutes the first coast-to-coast charting of all the major dialects spoken in the continental United States and Canada.
		The room was full of young NWAV linguists, whose field Labov more or less invented--he is often called the father of sociolinguistics--and who treated him with a mixture of awe and filial tenderness, making sure 'Bill' had enough to eat and drink, and that the Web site he would be demonstrating was ready to roll.
		But after the Second World War, Labov said, with the loss of Britain's imperial status 'r'-less British speech ceased to be regarded as 'prestige speech'--William F. Buckley was a consuvative, but George W. Bush is not--and the dropping of 'r's became exclusively working class.
	odur.let.rug.nl /nerbonne/teach/dialectology/labov-new-yorker.html (892 words)

	VOA Wordmaster - January 12, 2005 - Sound Change, Part 1
		WILLIAM LABOV: "Now what happens here is the short-a becomes 'ai' [like in "yeah"] in every single word, so that people have, say, 'theaht' and 'feahct'.
		RS: William Labov and other researchers have been tracking sound changes for a big project, the Atlas of North American English, to be published in a few months.
		WILLIAM LABOV: "Well, yes, our Web site is in construction now, is being created by people at the University of Marburg [in Germany], is going to be quite a remarkable innovation in dialectology because on this Web site you will see the maps, you will see all the cities.
	www.manythings.org /voa/wm/wm285.html (803 words)

	William labov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	History of liquid phonemes in the English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Loss of coda /r/ apparently became widespread in southern England during the 18th century; John Walker uses the spelling ar to indicate the broad A of aunt in his 1775 dictionary and reports that card is pronounced "caad" in 1791 (Labov, Ash, and Boberg 2006: 47).
		Today, non-rhoticity in Southern American English is found primarily among older speakers, and only in some areas like New Orleans, southern Alabama, Savannah, Georgia, and Norfolk, Virginia (Labov, Ash, and Bomberg 2006: 47-48).
		The case of New York is especially interesting because of a classic study in sociolinguistics by William Labov showing that the non-rhotic accent is associated with older and middle- and lower-class speakers, and is being replaced by the rhotic accent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhoticity (1492 words)

	Mallspeak
		Labov, who has researched and written extensively about change and variation in American English (including African-American English), says that young people's speech has been criticized for thousands of years.
		Labov believes young people coin their own terms simply to speak differently than their parents, among other reasons.
		When you leave out details, you are telling others that you share their point of view, says Labov.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/031199/cb.mallspeak.shtml (807 words)

	John Benjamins: Contributions by William Labov
		William Labov is author/editor of the following titles.
		William Labov is editor/board member of the following series.
		William Labov has contributed to the following volumes.
	www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_authorview.cgi?author=7556 (287 words)

	Language Log: Instilling linguistic anxiety in Raachester
		Atlas of North American English (by William Labov, Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg) has been getting some nice press attention since its launch earlier this year.
		The "Inland North" is Labov's designation for the dialect region that surrounds the Great Lakes in urban areas from western New York State to southeastern Wisconsin.
		William Labov, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, calls our dialect the "northern city shift," claiming we say our vowels a bit more oddly than other parts of the country.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002933.html (567 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		illiam Labov, the sociolinguist, tippy-toed and leaning against the wooden fence, was listening to a cowboy speak to his pony in the chute.
		William Labov sees how Mindy had made the mistake with the fat woman's trailer; the two are almost exactly identical, except in the place where the fat woman had been sitting is a mattress spread out and covered with rumpled sheets.
		William Labov rolls away from her on the thin mattress and faces the wall.
	www.webdelsol.com /NorthAmReview/NAR/HTMLpages/su98-me.htm (1683 words)

	Linguistic Geography of the United States
		These are in chronological order: the Linguistic Atlas fieldwork begun under the direction of Hans Kurath in the 1930's; the informal but extensive personal observations of Charles Thomas in the 1940's; the DARE fieldwork of the 1960's under Frederic Cassidy; and the Phonological Atlas fieldwork of William Labov during the 1990's.
		Midland dialects retain R in all positions, and long I is not flattened (monophthongized) as uniformly as in the South, but the Midland is otherwise not very easy to describe as a whole, since "each of the Midland cities -- Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St.
		Labov (1997) on this basis divides the area horizontally into a North Midland and South Midland.(2) Previous researchers have also seen east-west distinctions, separating the Pennsylvania dialect(s) from those of the Lower Midwest.
	www.evolpub.com /Americandialects/AmDialMap.html (791 words)

	William Labov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Labov ist ein Schüler des jiddischen Sprachforschers Uriel Weinreich, der sich intensiv mit Sprachwandel bei dialektologischer Variation und Sprachkontakt befasst hatte.
		In den sechziger Jahren legte Labov die Grundlage für die empirische Erforschung von sprachlichen Veränderungen.
		William Labov ist Professor für Linguistik an der University of Pennsylvania.
	www.tocatch.info /de/Labov.htm (93 words)

	new york
		Labov talks about a "linguistic self-hatred" (p 489) which is shown in the negative statements the New Yorkers make when asked their opinion of their accent.
		This concept among the New Yorkers is expressed by an old Irish man who in Labov's study says that "They think we're all murderers," and a middle-class woman who says that it would be a terrible slap in the face to be recognized as a New Yorker (p 486).
		Labov explains his statement with some evidence, for instance the fact that the speech patterns of New York do not expand like speech patterns of other cities.
	www.eng.umu.se /city/jenny/new%20york/new%20york.htm (976 words)

	Good Practice Guide \| Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
		Great care is taken, therefore, to establish corpora of ethical recordings collected in relaxed circumstances from a wide range of speakers in the community (see also the article on Dialectology).
		Labov's intention when establishing sociolinguistic variation as an approach to investigating language was not simply to make what in many cases appear to be obvious correlations between social factors and language use, but to demonstrate how language changes spread through society.
		Labov found that upper working class speakers tended to be the leaders of unconscious linguistic changes that were more common in casual speech, and that the lower middle class led changes towards overtly prestigious standard forms.
	www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk /resources/goodpractice.aspx?resourceid=1054 (1765 words)

	LX404Syllabus
		The distribution of /r/ in English dialects and its implications for linguistic theory (lecture notes).
		Labov (1969) and Cedergren and Sankoff (1974) are the foundational papers that started a research paradigm.
		Labov (1972a) on the social motivation of sound change on Martha's Vineyard.
	www.bu.edu /linguistics/UG/course/lx404/syl-lx404.html (473 words)

	Penn Current \| Doctor of dialects
		QandA/After decades of groundbreaking work, linguist William Labov remains at the forefront of his field.
		William Labov, a Penn professor of linguistics since the early 1970s, recently published the biggest book of his career—the Atlas of North American English, a massive and comprehensive guide to the numerous speech patterns found in the continental United States and Canada.
		Its release figures only to enhance Labov’s already sterling reputation in the discipline that he is largely credited with founding: Sociolinguistics.
	www.upenn.edu /pennnews/current/2006/011206/cover.html (1164 words)

	Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language
		The 1960s witnessed the development of two subfields in linguistics, the systematic study of language variation, pioneered by William Labov (1963, 1966), and the scientific study of sign languages, developed initially by William Stokoe (1960).
		The theoretical framework and rigorous methodology of Labov’s early studies on Martha’s Vineyard and in New York City were soon extended to numerous other sites around the world.
		Like Labov’s work on linguistic variation, Stokoe’s initial work on the linguistic structure of sign languages was soon taken up by other researchers.
	gupress.gallaudet.edu /excerpts/SVASLone.html (398 words)

	English G301:Reading 2B
		Perera offers William Labov's investigation on Martha's Vineyard as an example of the significance of cultural identity when teaching English in the curriculum.
		Labov proved that the i slanders' accent was related to "their feelings about the island."
		Furthermore, Perera discusses her involvement in a committee charged with a government project in Britain to establish objectives for the skills and knowledge that students should have at "'the key ages of 7, 11, 14, and 16'" (28).
	www.iupui.edu /~sharrin/per.html (622 words)

	LDC Catalog
		All of the interviews are conducted by William Labov or by one of his students.
		Labov notes that these interviews are not classic in the sense that they form part of a systematic sociolinguistic study of the speech community.
		What makes these interviews classic is that they represent classic solutions to the problems of achieving cross-cultural contact, reducing the effect of the Observer's Paradox and approximating the vernacular of everyday life.
	www.ldc.upenn.edu /Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T15 (732 words)

	2005 LSA Institute - People - William Labov
		William Labov is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
		He received his B.A from Harvard in 1948 and his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1964.
		Labov is co-editor of Language Variation and Change, served as president of the Linguistic Society of America (1979), and is a member the National Academy of Science.
	web.mit.edu /lsa2005/people/bios/labov.html (107 words)

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