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Robbins Burling

RB

55

Publications

6.2K

Citations

28

H-Index

1958

Active since

Affiliations

University of British Columbia(Current)

University of Michigan

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Robbins Burling is an author at University of British Columbia specializing in language studies, linguistics, and engineering.

Top concepts

LanguageLinguisticsEngineeringSociolinguisticsApplied LinguisticsEducationOceanographyEarth ScienceLanguage VariationSyntax

Publications per year

1958–2007

55

Publications

55

Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular

Robbins Burling, William Labov · Language · 1975 · 3K citations

Separate System, Multilingualism, Linguistic Anthropology +21

Apes, Language, and the Human Mind

Robbins Burling, Sue Savage‐Rumbaugh, Stuart Shanker et al. · Language · 1999 · 352 citations

Entry Into Language, Philosophy Of Language, Syntax +13

Sociolinguistics: A Brief Introduction

Robbins Burling, Joshua A. Fishman · Language · 1972 · 337 citations

Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Brief Introduction +4

Black Street Speech: Its History, Structure, and Survival

Robbins Burling, John Baugh · Language · 1985 · 282 citations

Critical Race Theory, Language Variation, Black Experience +24

Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]

Robbins Burling, David Armstrong, Ben G. Blount et al. · Current Anthropology · 1993 · 209 citations

Cognitive Science, Engineering, Arts +10

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