Nicole Holliday
Nicole Holliday | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nicole Reannom Holliday |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Thesis | Intonational Variation, Linguistic Style, and the Black/Biracial Experience (2016) |
| Academic advisor | Renée A. Blake |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Sociophonetics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Nicole Holliday is an American linguist. She earned her PhD in linguistics in 2016 at New York University under the supervision of Renée A. Blake.[1] She was an assistant professor in the department of linguistics and cognitive science at Pomona College from 2017 to 2024, overlapping with her position as assistant professor in University of Pennsylvania's linguistics department from 2020 to 2020. Since 2024, she has been an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley.[2]
Holliday's area of research includes how speakers use variation in the process of identity formation. She also focuses on the intersection of political speech and identity, analyzing the speech patterns of specific politicians such as Barack Obama and Kamala Harris.[3] As of 2025, her recent work has been on speech technologies and bias as it relates to variation.[4]
References
- ^ "Intonational Variation, Linguistic Style and the Black/Biracial Experience - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Archived from the original on 2024-04-15. Retrieved 2025-10-06.
- ^ "Nicole Holliday | Letters & Science". ls.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2025-10-06.
- ^ "Opinion | Critiquing Kamala Harris' voice is the latest attempt to dismiss her Blackness". MSNBC.com. 2024-09-08. Retrieved 2025-10-06.
- ^ Holliday, Nicole R.; Reed, Paul E. (2025-02-28). "Gender and racial bias issues in a commercial "tone of voice" analysis system". PLOS ONE. 20 (2) e0314470. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0314470. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 11870350. PMID 40019935.