8. Predicting the Path of Sound Change

WILLIAM LABOV is emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his published volumes are The Social Stratification of English in New York City (1966 [2006]), Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972), Language in the Inner City (1972), Principles of Linguistic Change (1976, 2001, 2012), The Atlas of North American English (2006), and numerous studies of linguistic change and variation. Email: [email protected].