Nicole Holliday
Biographic Data
| ID | 130268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Holliday |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Holliday |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLIDAY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zimmer Biomet (Netherlands) |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-0454-9832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identity and personality in the social perception of synthesized voices
As the line between human speakers and “AI-generated” voices becomes increasingly blurred, it is important to understand how sociolinguistic knowledge affects human-computer interaction. Human listeners have been shown to rely on real-world biases, along with acoustic cues and their social associations, to characterize AI-synthesized voices, but it is often unclear if or how these factors interact. We examined these issues by conducting a product…
Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies
Socially prescriptive speech technologies (SPSTs) are technologies that claim to provide feedback to speakers about how other humans perceive their speech and communication style, based on algorithms trained on a set of static, prescriptive standards. Such systems are increasingly integrated into popular videoconferencing programs like Zoom and Microsoft Teams and are being used to score and judge employee performance across conversational contex…
Early and young child feeding in South Africa
Stunting under the age of two years remains a significant public health problem in South Africa. This study used data from the 2023/24 Food-EPI assessment to benchmark implementation of public nutrition policy related to undernutrition to develop recommendations for priority policy action. The assessment included ratings by an expert panel including academics, civil society, and government representatives (n = 13). Implementation of food fortific…
My Memoji, my self
Collecting code-switching data has long been a challenge for sociolinguists, because eliciting naturalistic alternations between one language or variety and another is often pragmatically difficult. Data for the current study comes from a social media thread dedicated to “code-switching”, representing a new way of using online recordings for analysis of sociolinguistic phenomena. In October 2019, a Twitter user posted a Memoji avatar video, solic…
Tool for assessing food industry commitments and practices to address the double burden of malnutrition
BACKGROUND: Many low- and middle-income countries face a double burden of malnutrition, i.e., a co-occurrence of undernutrition with overweight, obesity, or other diet-related noncommunicable diseases. In an increasingly connected global food system, multinational and domestic food industry actors - through their commercial practices and corporate political activity - both contribute to the double burden of malnutrition and hold potential to addr…
Drivers and levers of the double burden of malnutrition in Cape Town, South Africa
South Africa faces a high burden of malnutrition, including undernutrition, overweight, obesity, and diet-related non-communicable diseases. This coexistence and interaction of multiple forms of malnutrition within individuals and communities across the life-course is referred to as the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) and has complex, interrelated causes that need to be concurrently addressed. This qualitative study explored the drivers and p…
Complex Variation in the Construction of a Sociolinguistic Persona
Over the past few decades, sociolinguists have begun to take greater interest in how public figures, such as politicians, may employ variation at different levels of linguistic structure in the construction of a public persona. These figures are of particular interest because their public and constructed usages may also illuminate wider social usages and indices of specific linguistic variables. This article presents results from analyses of mult…
Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ Individuals in Moldova
Research on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for LGBTQ+ people is limited, particularly in eastern Europe. This mixed methods study explored the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic on the mental and physical wellbeing of LGBTQ+ individuals in Moldova. From June to the end of July 2022, 86 surveys and 12 interviews were completed by self-identified LGBTQ+ adults in Moldova. Survey data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and inte…
Siri, you've changed! Acoustic properties and racialized judgments of voice assistants
As speech technology is increasingly integrated into modern American society, voice assistants are a more significant part of our everyday lives. According to Apple, Siri fulfills 25 billion requests each month. As part of a software update in April 2021, users in the U.S. were presented with a choice of 4 Siris. While in beta testing, users on Twitter began to comment that they felt that some of the voices had racial identities, noting in partic…
A sociophonetic account of gradient /z/ devoicing among Chicanx high schoolers
This paper examines final /z/ devoicing among Chicanx teens in Southern California to investigate the degree to which devoiced final /z/ neutralizes with final /s/ in this dialect. Results indicate on the one hand that devoiced /z/ remains distinct from /s/: as expected, devoiced /z/ is significantly less voiceless than /s/ and has a significantly lower center of gravity (COG). However, unexpectedly, devoiced /z/ has a significantly longer fricat…
Vowel categories and allophonic lowering among Bolivian Quechua-Spanish bilinguals
This paper is an acoustic study describing the vowel spaces of bilingual Quechua-Spanish speakers in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with a particular focus on the height of mid and high vowels, in order to explore longstanding questions about the nature of Quechua vowel categories. South Bolivian Quechua is generally described as phonemically trivocalic with high-vowel lowering in presence of uvular consonants, but there has been little acoustic study of v…
My Presiden(t) and Firs(t) Lady Were Black
This article compares Michelle and Barack Obama's coronal stop deletion (CSD) rates in different contexts at different time points in order to examine the effects of time and context on an aspect of the speech of these black political figures. Data are taken from each of the Obamas' speeches from the 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions as well as two joint interviews from 2012 and 2016. Results of regression models indicate that Barack …
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About African American Language (But Didn't Know to Ask)
Book Review| February 01 2016 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About African American Language (But Didn't Know to Ask) The Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Edited by Lanehart, Sonja. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxvii + 903. ISBN 978-0-19-979539-0; $175.00 (ebk $174.99) Nicole Holliday Nicole Holliday Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2016) 91 (1): 100–106. https://doi.org…
My Presiden(t) and Firs(t) Lady Were Black
This article compares Michelle and Barack Obama's coronal stop deletion (CSD) rates in different contexts at different time points in order to examine the effects of time and context on an aspect of the speech of these black political figures. Data are taken from each of the Obamas' speeches from the 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions as well as two joint interviews from 2012 and 2016. Results of regression models indicate that Barack …
Complex Variation in the Construction of a Sociolinguistic Persona
Over the past few decades, sociolinguists have begun to take greater interest in how public figures, such as politicians, may employ variation at different levels of linguistic structure in the construction of a public persona. These figures are of particular interest because their public and constructed usages may also illuminate wider social usages and indices of specific linguistic variables. This article presents results from analyses of mult…
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About African American Language (But Didn't Know to Ask)
Book Review| February 01 2016 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About African American Language (But Didn't Know to Ask) The Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Edited by Lanehart, Sonja. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxvii + 903. ISBN 978-0-19-979539-0; $175.00 (ebk $174.99) Nicole Holliday Nicole Holliday Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2016) 91 (1): 100–106. https://doi.org…
My Presiden(t) and Firs(t) Lady Were Black
This article compares Michelle and Barack Obama's coronal stop deletion (CSD) rates in different contexts at different time points in order to examine the effects of time and context on an aspect of the speech of these black political figures. Data are taken from each of the Obamas' speeches from the 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions as well as two joint interviews from 2012 and 2016. Results of regression models indicate that Barack …
Vowel categories and allophonic lowering among Bolivian Quechua-Spanish bilinguals
This paper is an acoustic study describing the vowel spaces of bilingual Quechua-Spanish speakers in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with a particular focus on the height of mid and high vowels, in order to explore longstanding questions about the nature of Quechua vowel categories. South Bolivian Quechua is generally described as phonemically trivocalic with high-vowel lowering in presence of uvular consonants, but there has been little acoustic study of v…
A sociophonetic account of gradient /z/ devoicing among Chicanx high schoolers
This paper examines final /z/ devoicing among Chicanx teens in Southern California to investigate the degree to which devoiced final /z/ neutralizes with final /s/ in this dialect. Results indicate on the one hand that devoiced /z/ remains distinct from /s/: as expected, devoiced /z/ is significantly less voiceless than /s/ and has a significantly lower center of gravity (COG). However, unexpectedly, devoiced /z/ has a significantly longer fricat…
Siri, you've changed! Acoustic properties and racialized judgments of voice assistants
As speech technology is increasingly integrated into modern American society, voice assistants are a more significant part of our everyday lives. According to Apple, Siri fulfills 25 billion requests each month. As part of a software update in April 2021, users in the U.S. were presented with a choice of 4 Siris. While in beta testing, users on Twitter began to comment that they felt that some of the voices had racial identities, noting in partic…
Complex Variation in the Construction of a Sociolinguistic Persona
Over the past few decades, sociolinguists have begun to take greater interest in how public figures, such as politicians, may employ variation at different levels of linguistic structure in the construction of a public persona. These figures are of particular interest because their public and constructed usages may also illuminate wider social usages and indices of specific linguistic variables. This article presents results from analyses of mult…
Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ Individuals in Moldova
Research on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for LGBTQ+ people is limited, particularly in eastern Europe. This mixed methods study explored the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic on the mental and physical wellbeing of LGBTQ+ individuals in Moldova. From June to the end of July 2022, 86 surveys and 12 interviews were completed by self-identified LGBTQ+ adults in Moldova. Survey data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and inte…
Early and young child feeding in South Africa
Stunting under the age of two years remains a significant public health problem in South Africa. This study used data from the 2023/24 Food-EPI assessment to benchmark implementation of public nutrition policy related to undernutrition to develop recommendations for priority policy action. The assessment included ratings by an expert panel including academics, civil society, and government representatives (n = 13). Implementation of food fortific…
My Memoji, my self
Collecting code-switching data has long been a challenge for sociolinguists, because eliciting naturalistic alternations between one language or variety and another is often pragmatically difficult. Data for the current study comes from a social media thread dedicated to “code-switching”, representing a new way of using online recordings for analysis of sociolinguistic phenomena. In October 2019, a Twitter user posted a Memoji avatar video, solic…
Tool for assessing food industry commitments and practices to address the double burden of malnutrition
BACKGROUND: Many low- and middle-income countries face a double burden of malnutrition, i.e., a co-occurrence of undernutrition with overweight, obesity, or other diet-related noncommunicable diseases. In an increasingly connected global food system, multinational and domestic food industry actors - through their commercial practices and corporate political activity - both contribute to the double burden of malnutrition and hold potential to addr…
Drivers and levers of the double burden of malnutrition in Cape Town, South Africa
South Africa faces a high burden of malnutrition, including undernutrition, overweight, obesity, and diet-related non-communicable diseases. This coexistence and interaction of multiple forms of malnutrition within individuals and communities across the life-course is referred to as the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) and has complex, interrelated causes that need to be concurrently addressed. This qualitative study explored the drivers and p…
Identity and personality in the social perception of synthesized voices
As the line between human speakers and “AI-generated” voices becomes increasingly blurred, it is important to understand how sociolinguistic knowledge affects human-computer interaction. Human listeners have been shown to rely on real-world biases, along with acoustic cues and their social associations, to characterize AI-synthesized voices, but it is often unclear if or how these factors interact. We examined these issues by conducting a product…
Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies
Socially prescriptive speech technologies (SPSTs) are technologies that claim to provide feedback to speakers about how other humans perceive their speech and communication style, based on algorithms trained on a set of static, prescriptive standards. Such systems are increasingly integrated into popular videoconferencing programs like Zoom and Microsoft Teams and are being used to score and judge employee performance across conversational contex…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)