he was awarded the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics by the British Academy "for lifetime achievement in the scholarly study of linguistics" and "his significant contribution to linguistics and the language sciences". In 2020, Labov was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Talcott Parsons Prize, recognizing "distinguished and original contributions to the social sciences". References External links William Labov's home page Journal of English Linguistics interview NPR story "American Accent Undergoing Great Vowel Shift" Sociolinguistics: an interview with William Labov ReVEL, vol. 5, n. 9, 2007. 1927 births Living people Linguists from the United States Sociolinguists Dialectologists Harvard College alumni Columbia University alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty Columbia University faculty Jewish American scientists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science People from Rutherford, New Jersey 20th-century linguists 21st-century linguists Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society Recipients of the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics Linguistic Society of America presidents 21st-century American Jews Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America