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 ...

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 ...

Labov has spent the past eight years running his own publicity firm, Forefront Media. Before launching Forefront in 2010, he spent 16 years with BWR agency, rising to co-president before he ...

Labov has spent the past eight years running his own publicity firm, Forefront Media. Before launching Forefront in 2010, he spent 16 years with BWR agency, rising to co-president before he ...

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.

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, professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, says he's studied Palin's way of speaking and she has a distinctive Alaskan accent.

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 ...