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- Sterling Fellowship in Linguistics, Yale University, 1943-1944
- Research Fellow in Speech, Haskins Laboratories, 1956-1957
- D.Litt., (honorary degree), Washburn University, 1964
- Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1969-1970
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1973
- Orwell Award, National Council of Teachers of English, 1981
- Corresponding Member, Royal Spanish Academy, 1988
- Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 1990
- Co-chairman, Honorary Editorial Advisory Board, The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, R.E. Asher and J.M.Y. Simpson, eds., Pergamon, 1994.