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In an early discussion of linguistic methodology, William Labov classified the different subfields of linguistics according to whether their practitioners were primarily to be found working in "the library, the bush, the closet, the laboratory... [or] the street" (Labov 1972:99).
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allophonic complexity, stratified grammars, obsolescing forms, selfconscious speech, koine formation, fronted onsets, dialect leveling, incoming variant, majority sound change, variationist research, variationist analysis, variationist investigations, fast speech phenomena, fast speech processes, sociolinguistic dialect geography, sociolinguistic gender pattern, tight uttered, glottal stop variant, internal linguistic factors, public corpus, department store survey, variationist analyses, variationist work, implicational scales, variationist tradition
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New York, Cambridge University Press, American English, New Zealand, John Benjamins, United States, Academic Press, African American, University of Pennsylvania Press, Mouton de Gruyter, William Labov, Black English, Oxford University Press, Milton Keynes, Chicano English, British English, Georgetown University Press, North Carolina, University of Alabama Press, Journal of Linguistics, Los Angeles, Puerto Rican, Locating Language, Stanford University, Outer Banks
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