William Labov

William Labov's books

Sociolinguistic Patterns

4.01 avg rating — 82 ratings

Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change

3.70 avg rating — 67 ratings

Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular

4.16 avg rating — 37 ratings

The Language of Life and Death: The Transformation of Experience in Oral Narrative

4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings

Principles of Linguistic Change, Vol. 2: Social Factors

4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings

The Social Stratification of English in New York City

4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings

The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 13 ratings

Principles of Linguistic Change, Vol. 1: Internal Factors (Language in Society, No. 20)

4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings

Principles of Linguistic Change: Cognitive and Cultural Factors: 3

4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings

What is a Linguistic Fact?

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