Daniel Duran

Dr. Daniel Duran is a Researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany. He participates in the DFG-funded CRC 1412 'Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation' as part of Research Area 1 ‘Laboratory Phonology’. His work focuses on phonetic and sociolinguistic aspects of linguistic variation in situated interactions, including speech rate dynamics, filler particles, and register-specific phonetic features.

Research Interests:

• Acoustic-phonetic variation in formal/informal contexts
• Social and cognitive factors influencing speech production
• Multiethnolectal German dialects
• Experimental methods for eliciting register variation

Key Projects:

• DFG Project C02 'Variation in Situated Interaction II'
• Development of app-based phonetic elicitation methods

Recent contributions include studies on vowel dispersion in Stuttgart multiethnolects, antisemitism in pop culture discourse, and gender-based f0 variation in German speech. His work integrates sociolinguistic theory with experimental phonetics, often using innovative data collection techniques.