William Labov: Facts & Related Content

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Born December 4, 1927 (age 96) • RutherfordNew Jersey
Notable Works “Principles of Linguistic Change”

Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American psychologist
Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
Roman Jakobson
American linguist
Joseph Emerson Worcester
American lexicographer
Mario Pei
American linguist
Sydney M. Lamb
American linguist
Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
Hans Kurath
American linguist
Mary R. Haas
American linguist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Michel Thomas
linguist and teacher
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
French author
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
Karl Brugmann
German linguist
Friedrich Müller
Austrian linguist
Sayce, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1920; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Archibald H. Sayce
British language scholar
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist

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