Charles Boberg

Charles Boberg is an academic specializing in sociolinguistics, particularly North American English. He is an associate professor of linguistics at McGill University in Montreal.

He studied at the University of Pennsylvania under William Labov, and later collaborated with him and Sharon Ash in the preparation of the Atlas of North American English, published by De Gruyter in 2006. Boberg has been consulted on matters of national security because of his expertise with identifying regional accent and vocabulary patterns.

• William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg (2006).The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Charles Boberg (2010). The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.