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William Labov

1927 - Today

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William Labov ( lə-BOHV; born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics. Labov is a professor emeritus in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and pursues research in sociolinguistics, language change, and dialectology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Labov has received more than 478,044 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). William Labov is the 59th most popular linguist (down from 58th in 2019), the 2,756th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,536th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Linguist.

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  • 54.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, William Labov ranks 59 out of 161. Before him are Karl Lachmann, Eugenio Coșeriu, Claude Piron, August Leskien, Friedrich Christian Diez, and Michael Halliday. After him are Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Hugo Schuchardt, Vilém Mathesius, Robert Morrison, and Noah Webster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, William Labov ranks 120. Before him are Nguyễn Khánh, Pierre Henry, Mikhail Ulyanov, Óscar Míguez, Allen Newell, and Colin Davis. After him are Raymond Chow, Gerry Mulligan, Jorge Batlle, Carlos José Castilho, Laura Betti, and Hans Schäfer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Labov ranks 2,756 out of 18,182. Before him are Jill St. John (1940), Fritz Leiber (1910), Richard Thorpe (1896), Leonard Susskind (1940), George W. De Long (1844), and Mike Pompeo (1963). After him are Henry Wilson (1812), Billy Milligan (1955), Charles Tilly (1929), Ann Dunham (1942), Clancy Brown (1959), and Anne Meara (1929).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, William Labov ranks 7. Before him are Noam Chomsky (1928), William James Sidis (1898), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), George Lakoff (1941), and Joseph Greenberg (1915). After him are Noah Webster (1758), Joshua Fishman (1926), Stephen Krashen (1941), George Kingsley Zipf (1902), Morris Swadesh (1909), and William Dwight Whitney (1827).

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