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The New York Times

William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97

Posted on 2024-12-25 by INTELLINEWS

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

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