The Sociolinguistics and Language Variation and Change Lab has been on the 14th floor of Robart's Library since its start in 2002. The lab houses the Directions of Change corpus, the Toronto English Corpus, the York English Corpus, the Roots Corpus, and the KIDS Corpus in both analog and digital formats. It is also home to the Heritage Language Variation & Change in Toronto Project (HLVC).

Since 2002, a large body of research has been produced by both graduate and undergraduate students.