9. Contested Place Construction and “Local” Sound Change

daniel duncan is a 1990s baby whose first game console was the Nintendo 64. Now senior lecturer in sociolinguistics at Newcastle University, his main research interest concerns how planning and policy in metropolitan areas influence local patterns of language variation and change. Work exploring this has appeared in venues such as Language in Society, Journal of Linguistic Geography, and Journal of English Linguistics. He also has research interests in St. Louis English, how linguistic variation is constructed in speakers’ grammars, and the sociolinguistics of popular culture. Email: [email protected].