The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change

By W. Labov. 1990

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"How Old Do You Think I Am?" A Study of Language and Age in Twitter (2013, background): “It has been pointed out that females assert their identity more through language than males (Eckert 1989; Labov 1990).”
Challenges of studying and processing dialects in social media (2015, background): “This may actually be true, since it is well-15 established that women tend to be more linguistically creative and have larger vocabularies (Labov, 1990; Brizendine, 2006).”
The social life of phonetics and phonology (2006, background): “A further implication is that, in many societies, patterns indexical of female speech are likely to receive prominence in early input as a consequence of the gender asymmetry of child care (Labov, 1990).”
Do speech recognizers prefer female speakers? (2005, background): “These studies open a range of questions as to why there is this performance difference [6].”
Gender identity and lexical variation in social media (2012, background): “r has moved away from seeing women using language in an attempt to claim an undeserved class status, in favor of seeing women's preference for standard language in terms of ac1 See, for example, Labov 1990 which attempted to account for how it is that women are more standard with stable variabl”
The cognitive coherence of sociolects: How do speakers handle multiple sociolinguistic variables? (2013, background): “Looking at gender, we find that females show somewhat higher mean usage rates than males of the prestige forms of all of these variables, which is consistent with much research in sociolinguistics (cf. Labov, 1990, 2001).”
Social Cues, Social Biases: Stereotypes in Annotations on People Images (2018, background): “Sociolinguists have long argued that demographic characteristics, and in particular gender, are strong inﬂuences on people’s language patterns (Labov 1990).”
Calculating speakers: Codeswitching in a rational choice model (2001, background): “In summary, we recognize that both social factors approaches (cf. Labov 1990, Milroy & Milroy 1995) and CA have offered useful descriptions of linguistic choices (cf. Duranti & Goodwin 1992 andAuer 1998, specifically on codeswitching).”
Gender in Twitter: Styles, stances, and social networks (2012, background): “1 See, for example, Labov (1990), which attempted to account for how it is that women are more standard with stable variables but leaders of (some) changes-in-progress.”
Write Like I Write: Herding in the Language of Online Reviews (2014, background): “Linguistic style varies depending on a range of social characteristics, such as socio-economic status or gender (Labov 1990), and authorship attribution techniques rely on this social (i.e., interspeaker) variance in order to predict the likely author of a given text (Argamon et al. 2006).”