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Labov, William. 2018. The role of the Avant Garde in linguistic diffusion. Language Variation and Change (1) : 1–21.
Labov, William. 2015. The discovery of the unexpected. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1 (1) : 7–22.
Labov, William. 2014. The role of African Americans in Philadelphia sound change. Language Variation and Change 26 (1) : 1–19.
Labov, William. 2012. What is to be learned: The community as the focus of social cognition. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10 (2) : 265–293.
Baker, Bettina and William Labov. 2010. What is a reading error? Applied Psycholinguistics 31 (3) : 735–757.
Dinkin, Aaron, Maciej Baranowski and William Labov. 2010. The effect of outliers on the perception of sound change. Language Variation and Change 22 (2) : 175–190.
Labov, William. 2008. Mysteries of the substrate. In Nagy, Naomi and Miriam Meyerhoff, eds. Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff. (IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 24). John Benjamins. pp. 315–326.
Labov, William. 2006. Narrative pre-construction. Narrative Inquiry 16 (1) : 37–45.
Labov, William. 2006. The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Cambridge University Press.
Ash, Sharon, Charles Boberg and William Labov. 2005. The Atlas of North American English. Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. De Gruyter.
Labov, William. 2002. Review of $Linguistic variation as social practice. Language in Society 31 (2) : 277–284.
Labov, William. 2001. Principles of linguistic change (Volume 2): Social factors. Blackwell Publishers.
Labov, William. 1997. Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 23–24.
Labov, William. 1997. Rules for Ritual Insults. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 472–486.
Labov, William. 1997. The Social Stratification or (r) in New York City Department Stores. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 168–178.
Labov, William. 1994. Principles of linguistic change. Volume 1: Internal factors. (Language in Society 20). Blackwell Publishers.
Labov, William. 1990. The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change. Language Variation and Change 2 (2) : 205–254.
Labov, William. 1987. The overestimation of functionalism. In Daneš, František. On Prague School functionalism in linguistics. In : 3–38. : 311–332.
Labov, William. 1984. Field methods of the Project on Linguistic Change and Variation. In Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer, eds. Language in use: Readings in sociolinguistics. Prentice-Hall. pp. 28–53.
Labov, William. 1982. Building on empirical foundations. In Lehmann, Winfred P. and Yakov Malkiel, eds. Perspectives on historical linguistics. John Benjamins. pp. 17–92.
Labov, William. 1981. What can be learned about change in progress from synchronic description? In Sankoff, David and Henriette Cedergren, eds. Variation omnibus. Linguistic Research. pp. 177–199.
Labov, William, ed. 1980. Locating language in time and space. Academic Press.
Labov, William. 1979. Locating the frontier between social and psychological factors in linguistic variation. In Fillmore, Charles J., Daniel Kempler and William S.-Y. Wang, eds. Individual differences in language ability and language behavior. Academic Press. pp. 327–340.
Labov, William. 1978. Modes of mitigation and politeness. In Lourie, Margaret A. and Nancy Faires Conklin, eds. A pluralistic nation: The language issue in the United States. Newbury House. pp. 382–389.
Labov, William and Teresa Labov. 1978. Learning the syntax of questions. In Campbell, Robin N. and Philip T. Smith, eds. Recent advances in the psychology of language. Plenum Press. pp. 1–44.