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. His major research area is linguistic variation and change. Publications include Sociolinguistic Patterns (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972); Language in the Inner City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972); Principles of Linguistic Change (Blackwell, 1994, 2000). He is the director of the Atlas of North American English. 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.

Sound Change in Progress | LSA.218
MW 8:15-9:55
Three Week Course | Second Session