Editing William Labov (section)

==Career==
After graduating from Harvard, Labov worked as an industrial chemist in his family's business (1949–61) before turning to linguistics.<ref name="HIgiL"/> For his MA thesis (1963) he completed a study of change in the dialect of [[Martha's Vineyard]], which he presented before the [[Linguistic Society of America]].<ref name="Chambers"/> Labov took his PhD (1964) at [[Columbia University]], studying under [[Uriel Weinreich]]. He was an [[assistant professor]] of linguistics at Columbia (1964–70) before becoming an [[associate professor]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1971, then a [[full professor]],<ref name="AAAS"/> and in 1976 becoming director of the university's Linguistics Laboratory.<ref>{{cite web |title=Department of English |url=https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/william-labov |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>