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?
Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.
- 1Language and Linguistics22% of their works
- 2Linguistics and Language21% of their works
- 3Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
- 4Gender Studies5% of their works
- 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
- 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.
- Language Learning
- Translanguaging
- Phonetics
- Lexicography
- Hispanic Linguistics
- Text Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis
- Multilingualism
- Language Contact
- Phraseology
- Sociolinguistic Variation
- Sociolinguistics
- Speech Perception
- Language Change
- Language Variation
- Bilingualism
- Language Acquisition
- Children's Literature
- Gender Stereotyping
- Anglicisms
- Language Policy
- Linguistic Borrowing
- Second Language Learning
- German as a Foreign Language
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
- Speech Perception142 topics
- Sociolinguistics134 topics
- Language Change111 topic
- Sociolinguistic Variation111 topic
- Language Variation72 topics
- Phraseology72 topics
- Bilingualism62 topics
- Language Contact62 topics
- Language Acquisition52 topics
- Multilingualism52 topics
- Children's Literature41 topic
- Discourse Analysis41 topic
- Gender Stereotyping41 topic
- Text Linguistics41 topic
- Anglicisms31 topic
- Hispanic Linguistics31 topic
- Language Policy31 topic
- Lexicography31 topic
- Linguistic Borrowing31 topic
- Phonetics31 topic
- Second Language Learning31 topic
- Translanguaging31 topic
- German as a Foreign Language21 topic
- 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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