Distinguishing linguistic change at the community level ('generational change') from
linguistic change at the individual level ('age grading') is “one of the major issues in …

Understanding the relationship between language change and variation has progressed
considerably over the last several decades, but less is known about how speakers at …

NOW PUBLISHED BY PLURAL! This classic text now in its tenth edition and now available
from Plural Publishing, The Development of Language continues its focus on language …

With a new Foreword by April Baker-Bell and a new Preface by Vershawn Ashanti Young
and Y'Shanda Young-Rivera, Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and …

Research on crossing and stylisation among young people in multi-ethnic urban areas of
Britain during the 1980s and 1990s pointed to the emergence of new ethnicities with social …

Informed by abstract models of language change or stability over time, we present a
longitudinal study of two African American females, first interviewed as teenagers, and re …

This article argues that an enhanced understanding of the dynamics of language change
can be gained by uniting two perspectives whose intimate relationship has not previously …

In work on Martha's Vineyard, William Labov developed methodological innovations that
allowed linguists to track the progress of linguistic changes and established the basis for a …

Like its predecessor, Dialects in Schools and Communities, this book illuminates major
language-related issues that educational practitioners confront, such as responding to …

Building NLP systems that serve everyone requires accounting for dialect differences. But
dialects are not monolithic entities: rather, distinctions between and within dialects are …