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    William Labov, an American linguist born in 1927, studied how social factors influence language and conducted groundbreaking sociolinguistic research including his studies of how the pronunciation of "R" varies among social classes in New York City. He earned his PhD from Harvard in 1948 and began his career in linguistics in 1961, developing sociolinguistic field methods and variationist theory through studies of language change and dialect variation on Martha's Vineyard and in Pennsylvania. Labov held many prestigious academic positions and helped establish sociolinguistics as a field through his influential work on phonology and the relationship between language and social stratification.

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    William Labov, an American linguist born in 1927, studied how social factors influence language and conducted groundbreaking sociolinguistic research including his studies of how the pronunciation of "R" varies among social classes in New York City. He earned his PhD from Harvard in 1948 and began his career in linguistics in 1961, developing sociolinguistic field methods and variationist theory through studies of language change and dialect variation on Martha's Vineyard and in Pennsylvania. Labov held many prestigious academic positions and helped establish sociolinguistics as a field through his influential work on phonology and the relationship between language and social stratification.

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    William Labov, an American linguist born in 1927, studied how social factors influence language and conducted groundbreaking sociolinguistic research including his studies of how the pronunciation of "R" varies among social classes in New York City. He earned his PhD from Harvard in 1948 and began his career in linguistics in 1961, developing sociolinguistic field methods and variationist theory through studies of language change and dialect variation on Martha's Vineyard and in Pennsylvania. Labov held many prestigious academic positions and helped establish sociolinguistics as a field through his influential work on phonology and the relationship between language and social stratification.

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    WILLIAM LABOV

    December 4,1927(89)
    Rutherford, NJ
    Who is he?

    A famous American linguist.


    the social stratification of the letter R in the New
    York City
    Employed professor of linguistic.
    STUDIOS

    Studied in Harvard University in 1948.


    Chemist.
    The change of dialect in Marthas Vineyard.
    Real result and experiment.
    Labovs career in linguistics

    Began 1961.
    Master thesis of sociolinguistic studies of
    the language change.
    Pennsylvania.
    He acquired many positions.
    Variatonist sociolinguistic
    Phonology.

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