Nicole Holliday

Nicole Holliday is an American socio-phonetician and Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. [1][2] Holliday received her Ph.D. in linguistics from New York University, and her BA in linguistics and Spanish from The Ohio State University. [2]She is also Chair of the Linguistic Society America’s Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics. [2]

Career

Holliday’s studies focus on different ways of how people use linguistic variation to construct their social identities and the interaction between what people hear in someone’s voice and the judgments they make about their identity, especially with respect to race.[3] Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on how people with one black parent and one white parent use variation in language to form their own identities. [2]

References

  1. "Podcast Episode 7: The Power of Sociolinguistic Bias (w/ Dr. Nicole…". dscout.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Minute, Academic (2019-09-04). "Nicole Holliday, Pomona College – What Do We Assume Based on the Voices We Hear". The Academic Minute. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  3. "May 2018 Member Spotlight: Nicole Holliday | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-02-09.