Papers

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

Li, Yanyu, Damar Hoogland, Daniel Duncan, and Cong Zhang. 2026. Gamification in phonetic data collection: Accent identification in North East England. Linguistics Vanguard.

Duncan, Daniel. 2025. Variation in fictional dialogue in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Language and Literature 34(3): 248-273.

Duncan, Daniel. 2024. Contested place construction and “local” sound change. In J. Stanley, M. Nesbitt, & P. Renwick (eds.), Movement, Economy, Orientation: 20th Century Shifts in North American Language (Publications of the American Dialect Society), 221-243.

Duncan, Daniel. 2024. Does ChatGPT have sociolinguistic competence?. Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Research 8: 51-75.

Duncan, Daniel. 2024. An alternative view of the English alternative embedded passive. Linguistics 62(4): 1047-1084.

Chatten, Alicia, Kimberly Baxter, Erwanne Mas, Jailyn Pena, Guy Tabachnick, Daniel Duncan, and Laurel MacKenzie. 2024. “I’ve always spoke like this, you see”: Preterite-for-participle leveling in American and British Englishes. American Speech 99(1): 3-46.

Sofia Serbicki, Ruijin Lan, and Daniel Duncan. 2024. Participle-for-preterite variation in Tyneside English. English World-Wide 45(1): 30-60.

Duncan, Daniel. 2022. High aspect in the English be going to construction: Syntactic evidence. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 7(1).

Duncan, Daniel. 2022. “Missouree was always out of step with Missourah”: Sociolinguistic variants as moral toponyms. Names: A Journal of Onomastics 70(3): 24-38.

Duncan, Daniel. 2022. Chronotopes and commodification on the Streets of St. Charles. Nordisk tidskrift för socioonomastik/Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics 2: 19-41.

Duncan, Daniel. 2022. Merger reversal in St. Louis: Implementation and implications. Journal of English Linguistics 50(1): 72-105. 

Duncan, Daniel. 2021. Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice. In A. Ziegler, S. Edler, & G. Oberdorfer (eds.), Urban Matters. Current Approaches in Variationist Sociolinguistics (Studies in Language Variation 27), 62-87. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Duncan, Daniel. 2021. A note on the productivity of the alternative embedded passive. American Speech 96(4): 481-490.

Duncan, Daniel. 2021. Secondary education as a group marker in St. Louis, Missouri. Language in Society 50(5): 667-694

Duncan, Daniel. 2021. Using hidden Markov models to find discrete targets in continuous sociophonetic data. Linguistics Vanguard 7(1): 20200057. 

Bleaman, Isaac, and Daniel Duncan. 2021. The Gettysburg Corpus: Testing the proposition that all tense /æ/s are created equal. American Speech 96(2): 161-191.

Duncan, Daniel. 2019. The influence of suburban development and metropolitan fragmentation on language variation and change: Evidence from Greater St. Louis. Journal of Linguistic Geography 7(2): 82-97.

Duncan, Daniel. 2019. Residential segregation and ethnolinguistic variation. Sociolinguistic Studies 12(3-4): 481-501.

Duncan, Daniel. 2018. Understanding St. Louis’ love for hoosier. Names: A Journal of Onomastics 66(1): 14-24.

Duncan, Daniel. 2017. Australian singer, American features: Performing authenticity in country music. Language and Communication 52: 31-44. 

Duncan, Daniel. 2016. Language policy, ethnic conflict, and conflict resolution: Albanian in the former Yugoslavia. Language Policy 15(4): 453-474.

Duncan, Janine, and Daniel Duncan. 2014. Building community through the experiences of multilingual families: Preparing FCS professionals for a multilingual society. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences 106(4): 17-22.  

Conference Proceedings:

Duncan, Daniel. Placing the needs washed construction in a broader settler-colonial context. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 31(2): 70-79.

Duncan, Daniel. 2023. Computationally deriving language-internal factors with bipartite networks. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 29(2): 79-88.

Duncan, Daniel. 2019. The role of gesture in the English ish-construction. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4: 1:1-12.

Duncan, Daniel. 2019. Grammars compete late: Evidence from embedded passives. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 25(1): 89-98.

Robinson, Mary, and Daniel Duncan. 2019. Holistic approaches to syntactic variation: Wh-all questions in English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 25(1): 209-218.

Duncan, Daniel. 2016. ‘Tense’ /æ/ is still lax: A phonotactics study. Supplemental Proceedings of 2015 Meetings on Phonology.

Duncan, Daniel. 2016. A Freezing approach to the ish-construction in English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 22(1): 101-108. 

Dissertation:

Duncan, Daniel. 2018. Language variation and change in the geographies of suburbs.