Standout Papers
- Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular (1975)
- The Social Stratification of English in New York City. (1968)
- Sociolinguistic Patterns (1975)
- The Social Motivation of a Sound Change (1963)
- Style and Sociolinguistic Variation (2002)
- Therapeutic Discourse: Psychotherapy as Conversation (1981)
- The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change (1990)
- Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors (1994)
- Contraction, Deletion, and Inherent Variability of the English Copula (1969)
- The Social Stratification of English in New York City (2006)
- Locating Language in Time and Space (1980)
- Some principles of linguistic methodology (1972)
Immediate Impact
2 by Nobel laureates 22 from Science/Nature 70 standout
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