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 | 15 October 2008 | 5:00–6:30pm Language Change in America William Labov William Labov, a pioneer in linguistics, has focused his distinguished career on understanding language not as a static structure but as a dynamic social system, one that is continuously moving, changing, interacting, and working. Language, to Labov, is a form of social behavior, which humans use in a social context, communicating their needs, ideals, and emotions to one another. He is the author of major studies of the social stratification of English in New York City and Philadelphia, and surveys of sound changes underway throughout the English speaking world. In The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Sound Change (with Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg, Berlin: Mouton/de Gruyter, 2006), he has produced an important work that remaps and redefines the regional dialects of American English. Cosponsored by Penn Museum. | ||||||
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
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