1966. The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics. 2006. Second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1972a. Language in the Inner City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
1972b. Sociolinguistic Patterns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
1975a. What Is a Linguistic Fact? Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press. New York: Humanities Press.
1977. with D. Fanshel. Therapeutic Discourse: Psychotherapy as Conversation. New York: Academic Press.
1980. ed. Locating Language in Time and Space. New York:Academic Press.
1994. Principles of Linguistic Change. Volume 1: Internal Factors. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
2001a. Principles of Linguistic Change. Volume II: Social Factors. Oxford: Blackwell.
2001b. Studies in Sociolinguistics: Selected Papers by William Labov. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
2006. with S. Ash and C. Boberg. Atlas of North American English:Phonology and Phonetics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2010a. Principles of Linguistic Change. Volume III: Cognitive and Cultural Factors. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
1963. The social motivation of a sound change. Word 19:273-309.
1964. Phonological correlates of social stratification. In Directions in Sociolinguistics, eds. J. Gumperz and D. Hymes, 164-176.
1965. On the mechanism of linguistic change. In Georgetown Monographs on Language and Linguistics 18:91-114.
1967. with J. Waletzky. Narrative analysis. In Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts, ed. J. Helm, 12-44. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
1968. with U. Weinreich and M. Herzog. Empirical foundations for a theory of language change. In Directions for Historical Linguistics, eds. W. Lehmann and Y. Malkiel. Austin: University of Texas Press.
1969a. Contraction, deletion, and inherent variability of the English copula. Language 45:715-762.
1969b. The logic of non-standard English. In Georgetown Monograph on Languages and Linguistics 22, ed. J. Alatis, 1-44.
1970. The study of language in its social context. Studium Generale 23:30-87.
1971. Some principles of linguistic methodology. Language in Society 1:97-120.
1972c. Negative attraction and negative concord in English grammar. Language 48:773-818.
1972d. Rules for ritual insults. In Studies in Social Interaction, ed. D.Sudnow, 120-169. New York: Free Press.
1972e. Some features of the English of Black Americans. In Varieties of Present-Day English, eds. R. W. Bailey and J. L. Robinson, 236255. New York: MacMillan.
1972f. The internal evolution of linguistic rules. In Linguistic Change and Generative Theory, eds. R. Stockwell and R. Macaulay, 101171. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
1972. with M. Yaeger and R. Steiner. A Quantitative Study of Sound Change in Progress. Philadelphia: U. S. Regional Survey.
1973a. General attitudes towards the speech of New York City. In Varieties of Present-Day English, eds. R. W. Bailey and J. L.Robinson , 274-291. New York: Macmillan.
1973b. The boundaries of words and their meanings. In New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English , eds. C.-J. Bailey and R. Shuy, 340373. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
1973c. Toasts. In Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-Ameriocan Folklore, ed. A. Dundes.Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
1975b. On the use of the present to explain the past. In Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Linguists, ed. L. Heilmann, 825851. Bologna: Il Mulino.
1976a. Systematically misleading data from test questions. Urban Review 9:146-169.
1976b. The relative influence of family and peers on the learning of language. In Aspetti Socioling. Dell’ Italia Contemponea, eds. R.Simone et al. Rome: Bulzoni.
1976. with T. Labov. Learning the syntax of questions. In Recent Advances in the Psychology of Language, Vol. 4B in the NATO Conference Series III: Human Factors, eds. R. Campbell and P.Smith. New York: Plenum.
1977. Ten principles of bilingual education. Bilingual Education: Ethnic Perspectives. Philadelphia: Nationalities Service Center and Community College of Phila. 63-69.
1978. Crossing the gulf between sociology and sociolinguistics. The American Sociologist 13:93-103.
1978. with D. Sankoff. On the uses of variable rules. Language in Society 8: 3.
1980. The social origins of sound change. In Locating Language in Time and Space, ed. W. Labov, 251-266. New York: Academic Press.
1981. Resolving the Neogrammarian controversy. Language 57:267309.
1982. Objectivity and commitment in linguistic science: The case of the Black English trial in Ann Arbor. Language in Society 11:165202.
1983. Recognizing Black English in the classroom. In Black English: Educational Equity and the Law, ed. J. Chambers, 29-55. Ann Arbor: Karoma Press.
1984a. Field methods of the Project on Linguistic Change and Variation. In Language in Use, eds. J. Baugh and J. Sherzer.Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1984b. Intensity. GURT ’84:43-70.
1985. Speech actions and reactions in personal narrative. GURT ’85.
1986. The several logics of quantification. Berkeley Linguistic Society 11: 175-195.
1986. with D. Graff and W. A. Harris. Testing listeners’ reactions to phonological markers. In Diversity and Diachrony, ed. D. Sankoff,45-58. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1986. with W. Harris. DeFacto segregation of black and white vernaculars. In Diversity and Diachrony , ed. D. Sankoff, 1-24.Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1986. with T. Labov. Public discourse and the problem of social order.In Discourse Analysis and Public Life: The Political Interview and Doctor-Patient Conversation, Papers of the Groningen Conference on Medical and Political discourse, eds. T. Ensink et al. Dordrecht:Foris Publications.
1987a. The interpretation of zeroes. In Phonologica 1984: Proceedings of the Fifth International Phonology Meeting, Eisenstadt . eds. W. U.Dressler et al., 135-156. London: Cambridge University Press.
1987b. The overestimation of functionalism. In Functionalism in Linguistics, eds. R. Dirven and V. Fried, 311-322. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1988. The judicial testing of linguistic theory. In Language in Context:Connecting Observation and Understanding, ed. D. Tannen, 159182. Norwood: Ablex.
1989a. The child as linguistic historian. Language Variation and Change 1:85-97.
1989b. The exact description of the speech community: Short a in Philadelphia. In Language Variation and Change, eds. R. Fasold and D. Schiffrin, 1-57. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1990. The interaction of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change. Language Variation and Change 2:205-254.
1991. with M. Karan and C. Miller. Near mergers and the suspension of phonemic contrast. Language Variation and Change 3:33-74.
1992. Regular sound change in English dialect geography. In History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics, eds. M. Rissanen et al., 42-71. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
1993. with J. Auger. The effect of normal aging on discourse: A sociolinguistic approach. In Narrative Discourse in Neurologically Impaired and Normal Aging Adults, eds. H. H. Brownell and Y.Joanette, 115-134. San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group.
1994. with W. Harris. Addressing social issues through linguistic evidence. In Language and the Law, ed. J. Gibbons, 265-305.London and New York: Longman.
1995. Can reading failure be reversed: A linguistic approach to the question. In Literacy Among African-American Youth: Issues in Learning, Teaching and Schooling, eds. V. Gadsden and D. Wagner,39-68. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
1996. When intuitions fail. Chicago Linguistic Society. Papers from the Parasession on Theory and Data in Linguistics 32: 77-106.
1997a. Resyllabification. In Variation, Change and Phonological Theory, eds. F. Hinskens, R. van Hout and W. L. Wetzels, 145-179.Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1997b. Some further steps in narrative analysis. Journal of Narrative and Life History 7:395-415.
1998. Co-existent systems in African-American Vernacular English.In The Structure of African-American English: Structure, History and Use, eds. S. Mufwene, J. Rickford, G. Bailey and J. Baugh, 110153. London and New York: Routledge.
2001c. The anatomy of style. In Style and Sociolinguistic Variation, eds. P. Eckert and J. Rickford, 85-108. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.
2001d. Uncovering the event structure of narrative. Georgetown University Round Table 2001:63-83.
2003a. Pursuing the cascade model. In Social Dialectology: In Honor of Peter Trudgill , eds. D. Britain and J. Cheshire, 9-22. Amsterdam:John Benjamins.
2003b. When ordinary children fail to read. Reading Research Quarterly 38: 131-133.
2004a. Ordinary events. In Sociolinguistic Variation: Critical Reflections ed. C. Fought, 31-43. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2004b. Quantitative analysis of linguistic variation. In HSK Sociolinguistics / Sociolinguisik Vol. I, eds. U. Ammon, N. Dittmar,K. Mattheier and P. Trudgill, 6-21. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2006a. A sociolinguistic perspective on sociophonetic research. Journal of Phonetics 34:500-515.
2006b. Narrative pre-construction. Narrative Inquiry 16: 37-45.
2007. Transmission and diffusion. Language 83:344-387.
2008a. Is a structural dialectology practical? Re-deploying Weinreich’s approach to diasystems. In Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies: The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazi Jewry, eds. M. Herzog et al., 217-230. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag.
2008b. Mysteries of the substrate. In Social Lives in Language:Sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities, eds. M.Meyerhoff and N. Nagy, 315-326.Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2010b. Unendangered languages, endangered people. The case of African-American Vernacular English. Transforming Anthropology 18:15-27.
2010c. Where shall I begin? In Telling stories: Language, Narrative and Social Life, eds. D. Schiffrin, A. De Fina, and A. Nylund.Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
2010. with B. Baker. What is a reading error? Applied Psycholinguistics 31: 735-757.
Online resources related to Professor William Labov’s research
2009. A Life of learning: Six people I have learned from. American Council of Learned Societies.
http://www.acls.org/publications/audio/labov/default.aspx?id=4462 The University of Pennsylvania Literacy and Reading Project.
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/pri/
An interview clip on Northern Cities Vowel Shift.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UoJ1-ZGb1w