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
Sociophonetics [LINGUIS 156 - 001]
Sociophonetics [LINGUIS 156 - 001]
Prosody and Social Identity [LINGUIS 218 - 001]