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 ...

By Clay Risen 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 ...

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 ...

The moment that put Barry LaBov on the path to his greatest hits was one of the worst of his life. He was 28 and living like an actual rock star. His band, Mark Urgent – formerly LaBov and ...

ZACK SEWARD, BYLINE: Students of Penn linguistics professor Bill Labov have been walking around some 89 Philadelphia neighborhoods for four decades. At the school's linguistics lab, they have ...

"It's embarrassing because you don't know if it's Mr. Gick or Mr. Jick," lamented William Labov, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania. As Dr. Labov explained, in modern ...

Forefront Media has hired PR veteran Samantha Srinivasan as senior VP and promoted publicist Rob Greenwald to VP, it was announced Friday by company founder and president Matt Labov.