Photo: Mike Kai Chen
Photo: Mike Kai Chen
Research Bio
Nicole Holliday is a sociophonetician, specifically interested in how people use linguistic variation to perform and construct their social identities and to understand the identities of others through differences in their use of properties related to intonation and voice quality.
Research Expertise and Interest
sociolinguistics, phonetics, sociophonetics, issues of language and identity, language and media, African American English
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Teaching
Courses taught during the three most recent terms
2026 Spring
Sociophonetics [LINGUIS 156]
Linguistics Honors Course [LINGUIS H195A]
Sociophonetics [LINGUIS 156]
Prosody and Social Identity [LINGUIS 218]