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William Labov

William Labov publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Linguistic research and analysis and Gender Studies in Language.

World rank
#11,939
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,763
of 358,040
Works
70
Citations
358
Citations per work
5.1

What does William Labov research?

Language and Linguistics: 22.4%Linguistics and Language: 21.1%Sociology and Political Science: 10.5%Gender Studies: 5.3%other fields: 40.7%22%top field
Language and Linguistics22.4%Linguistics and Language21.1%Sociology and Political Science10.5%Gender Studies5.3%other fields40.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Language and Linguistics22% of their works
  2. 2Linguistics and Language21% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  4. 4Gender Studies5% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Labov's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Speech Perception, Sociolinguistics, Language Change, Sociolinguistic Variation, Language Variation, Phraseology, Bilingualism and Language Contact.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Speech Perception142 topics
  2. Sociolinguistics134 topics
  3. Language Change111 topic
  4. Sociolinguistic Variation111 topic
  5. Language Variation72 topics
  6. Phraseology72 topics
  7. Bilingualism62 topics
  8. Language Contact62 topics
  9. Language Acquisition52 topics
  10. Multilingualism52 topics
  11. Children's Literature41 topic
  12. Discourse Analysis41 topic
  13. Gender Stereotyping41 topic
  14. Text Linguistics41 topic
  15. Anglicisms31 topic
  16. Hispanic Linguistics31 topic
  17. Language Policy31 topic
  18. Lexicography31 topic
  19. Linguistic Borrowing31 topic
  20. Phonetics31 topic
  21. Second Language Learning31 topic
  22. Translanguaging31 topic
  23. German as a Foreign Language21 topic
  24. Language Learning21 topic

Where does William Labov work?

William Labov's main affiliation in the publication record is California University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does William Labov have?

Science Explorer counts 70 works and 358 citations for William Labov, ranking #11,939 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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