12月17日，威廉·拉波夫（William Labov）在费城的家中去世，他在宾夕法尼亚大学（University of Pennsylvania）担任了近50年的教授。威廉·拉波夫被认为是 ...

As Dr. Labov explained, in modern English, no hard and fast rule exists for the 'gi' combination. Some words take the hard sound, others take the soft sound -- it depends on the word's specific ...

William Labov, whose innovative research into regional variations in language -- why New Yorkers drink wahtah but Philadelphians drink warter -- won him acclaim as one of the most important ...

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel ...

What's bizarre is that Matt Labov's decision to start his own flackery follows B|W|R last month promoting him to co-president with Leslie Sloane Zelnik. This is a major, major loss.

Labov studies regional accents in the United States to see how they change over time and over class. In this segment, we focus on Labov's 40-year study of the various accents of New York City.

In 1966, William Labov, the father of sociolinguistics, discovered that many people with New York accents — the stock Noo Yawk kind — didn’t like the way they talked. It was kind of sad ...

Labov has been with the company since 1994, and has built a comedy roster that includes Sacha Baron Cohen, Jack Black, Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Chris Rock, Seth Rogen and Jon Stewart.

Matt Labov is bolting BWR to start his own one-man PR shop — and is taking most of his A-list, comedy-heavy clients with him. Labov, whose roster includes Sacha Baron Cohen, Jack Black, Will ...