How i got into linguistics, and what i got out of it

Historiographia Linguistica

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 455-466

  Labov, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84989364709     PISSN: 03025160     EISSN: 15699781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/hl.28.3.17lab     Document Type: Article

References (20)

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7. 1969a. “The Logic of Non-Standard English”. Linguistics and the Teaching of Standard English to Speaker's of Other Languages and Dialects ed. by James E. Alatis, 1-44. Washington, D. C.: Georgetown University Press.
8. 1969b. “Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula”. Language 45.715-762.
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11. 1972b. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
12. 1972c. Language in the Inner City: Studies in the black English vernacular. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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15. Principles of Linguistic Change. Volume I: Internal factors. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell.
16. 1997a. “Co-Existent Systems in African-American Vernacular English”. The Structure of Afri- can-American English: .Structure, history and use ed. by Salikoko Mufwene, John Rickford, Guy Bailey & John Baugh, 110-153. London & New York: Routledge.
17. 1997b. (With Sharon Ash). “Understanding Birmingham”. Language Variety in the South Revisited ed. by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas Nunnally & Robin Sabino, 508-573. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press.
18. 2001a. Principles of Linguistic Change. Volume II: Social factors. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell.
19. 2001b. “Applying Our Knowledge of African English to the Problem of Raising Reading Levels in Inner-City Schools’. African American English: State of the art ed. by Sonja Lanehart, 299-317. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
20. In press. (With Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg). Atlas of North American English: Phonology and phonetics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.