Labov's works include The Study of Nonstandard English (1969), Language in the Inner City: Studies in Black English Vernacular (1972), Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972), Principles of Linguistic Change (vol.I Internal Factors, 1994 vol.II Social Factors, 2001, vol.III Cognitive and Cultural factors, 2010), and, with Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg, The Atlas of North American English (2006). His methods were adopted in England by Peter Trudgill for Norwich speech and K. Leonard, Geoffrey Nunberg, Shana Poplack, and John R. Charity Hudley, Penelope Eckert, Gregory Guy, Robert A. In the Atlas of North American English (2006), he and his co-authors find three major divergent chain shifts taking place today: a Southern Shift (in Appalachia and southern coastal regions) a Northern Cities Vowel Shift affecting a region from Madison, Wisconsin, east to Utica, New York and a Canadian Shift affecting most of Canada, as well as some areas in the Western and Midwestern (Midland) United States, in addition to several minor chain shifts in smaller regions.Īmong Labov's well-known students are Charles Boberg, Anne H. More recently he has studied ongoing changes in the phonology of English as spoken in the United States, as well as the origins and patterns of chain shifts of vowels (one sound replacing a second, replacing a third, in a complete chain). In addition, several of his classes are service-based, with students going to West Philadelphia to help tutor young children while simultaneously learning linguistics from different dialects such as AAVE. He has also pursued research in referential indeterminacy and is noted for his seminal studies of the way ordinary people structure narrative stories of their own lives. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, his studies of the linguistic features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) were also influential: he argued that AAVE should not be stigmatized as substandard, but rather respected as a variety of English with its own grammatical rules. The methods he used to collect data for his study of the varieties of English spoken in New York City, published as The Social Stratification of English in New York City (1966), have been influential in social dialectology. JSTOR ( August 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. They have two children, Rebecca Labov and sociologist Alice Goffman. He has been married to fellow sociolinguist Gillian Sankoff since 1993. The five children of his first marriage to Teresa Gnasso Labov are Susannah Page, Sarah Labov, Simon Labov, Joanna Labov and Jessie Labov.
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He was an assistant professor of linguistics at Columbia (1964–70) before becoming an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, then a full professor, and in 1976 becoming director of the university's Linguistics Laboratory. Labov took his PhD (1964) at Columbia University studying under Uriel Weinreich. For his MA thesis (1963) he completed a study of change in the dialect of Martha's Vineyard, which he presented before the Linguistic Society of America.
He worked as an industrial chemist in his family’s business (1949–61) before turning to linguistics. Born in Rutherford, New Jersey, Labov majored in English and philosophy and studied chemistry at Harvard (1948).
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