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William Labov (born December 4 , 1927 ) is a professor in the Linguistics department of the University Of Pennsylvania . He is widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of quantitative Sociolinguistics and pursues research in sociolinguistics and Dialect ology. Born in ), ''Sociolinguistic Patterns'' (1972), ''Principles of Linguistic Change'' (vol.I Internal Factors, 1994 ; vol.II Social Factors, 2001 ), and, together with Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg, ''The Atlas of North American English'' ( 2006 ). EXTERNAL LINKS
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