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Gillian Sankoff is a Canadian-American sociolinguist, and professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] She is known for her work on Montréal French, on pidgin and creole languages, and on how speakers' use of language changes over the course of their lifespans.[2] In 1986 she received a Guggenheim fellowship.[3]

She was married to sociologist Erving Goffman from 1981 to his death in 1982, and subsequently married sociolinguist William Labov in 1993. She is the mother of award-winning sociologist, Alice Goffman.[4]

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