Jeff Holliday
@jeffholliday.bsky.social
Linguist @ University of Kansas. Interested in phonetics, acquisition, sociolinguistics, and Korean. He.
https://jjholliday.github.io/
https://jjholliday.github.io/
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Any scholar of Language assessment?
September 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Any scholar of Language assessment?
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The serendipity of “the next book over” in libraries and used book stores is a wonderful and often overlooked method of randomly learning new and fascinating things.
September 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
The serendipity of “the next book over” in libraries and used book stores is a wonderful and often overlooked method of randomly learning new and fascinating things.
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New paper out! Turns out people are pretty good at converging or not on command.
But my favorite part is that Americans' TRAP vowels end up conflicted between the TRAP they just heard and that elephant BATH in the room
Super fun & my 1st collab w/ Cynthia
www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/2...
But my favorite part is that Americans' TRAP vowels end up conflicted between the TRAP they just heard and that elephant BATH in the room
Super fun & my 1st collab w/ Cynthia
www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/2...
Cognitive control in cross-dialect phonetic imitation
This paper explores deliberative and automatic processes in phonetic imitation across geographic dialects. 136 American English speakers shadowed an Australian model talker and were instructed to imit...
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August 28, 2026 at 2:39 PM
New paper out! Turns out people are pretty good at converging or not on command.
But my favorite part is that Americans' TRAP vowels end up conflicted between the TRAP they just heard and that elephant BATH in the room
Super fun & my 1st collab w/ Cynthia
www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/2...
But my favorite part is that Americans' TRAP vowels end up conflicted between the TRAP they just heard and that elephant BATH in the room
Super fun & my 1st collab w/ Cynthia
www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/2...
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Spotted in the wild, perfective of "draw" as "driven"
August 21, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Spotted in the wild, perfective of "draw" as "driven"
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Do I have anyone on here who can help with a tricky issue in early modern (late 16th century) Portuguese lexicography / etymology?
August 14, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Do I have anyone on here who can help with a tricky issue in early modern (late 16th century) Portuguese lexicography / etymology?
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🌟 Really excited to share that our article, “A Crosslinguistic Corpus Phonetic Analysis of Intrinsic Vowel Duration,” was just published in the Journal of Phonetics! Joint work with @mzhang89.bsky.social
Link to article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Link to article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
August 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
🌟 Really excited to share that our article, “A Crosslinguistic Corpus Phonetic Analysis of Intrinsic Vowel Duration,” was just published in the Journal of Phonetics! Joint work with @mzhang89.bsky.social
Link to article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Link to article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We don't get tons of musical acts coming to the non-KC parts of Kansas, but on August 10 in Salina you can see Men at Work, Toad the Wet Sprocket, AND *checks notes* Shonen Knife.
July 31, 2026 at 4:34 AM
We don't get tons of musical acts coming to the non-KC parts of Kansas, but on August 10 in Salina you can see Men at Work, Toad the Wet Sprocket, AND *checks notes* Shonen Knife.
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Halal, Arabic and French are among the skills Lawrence honed to be good hosts to the Algerians | via Emma Noble #ksleg
Halal, Arabic and French are among the skills Lawrence honed to be good hosts to the Algerians • Kansas Reflector
LAWRENCE — Bidding for a spot as a host city seemed nearly impossible. Until it wasn’t. The University of Kansas, Explore Lawrence, Rock Chalk Park, and Lawrence city government teamed to argue that ...
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July 8, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Halal, Arabic and French are among the skills Lawrence honed to be good hosts to the Algerians | via Emma Noble #ksleg
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Join us in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 next May for #TAI2027!
Abstract deadline: 6 December 2026
Conference website: ling.cuhk.edu.hk/tai2027
🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology #tone #intonation #prosody #typology #pragmatics
Abstract deadline: 6 December 2026
Conference website: ling.cuhk.edu.hk/tai2027
🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology #tone #intonation #prosody #typology #pragmatics
July 7, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Join us in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 next May for #TAI2027!
Abstract deadline: 6 December 2026
Conference website: ling.cuhk.edu.hk/tai2027
🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology #tone #intonation #prosody #typology #pragmatics
Abstract deadline: 6 December 2026
Conference website: ling.cuhk.edu.hk/tai2027
🐦🐦 #langsky #phonetics #phonology #tone #intonation #prosody #typology #pragmatics
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sadly real history has very few Norway-Brazil clashes but kids I'm here to tell you about a little game called Civ VI
July 5, 2026 at 9:51 PM
sadly real history has very few Norway-Brazil clashes but kids I'm here to tell you about a little game called Civ VI
I also missed this. I got to know him a bit during my time at Indiana, which was my first job after grad school. He was very supportive and kind to me.
I somehow missed that Bob Port passed away in February www.mykeeper.com/RobertPort
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June 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I also missed this. I got to know him a bit during my time at Indiana, which was my first job after grad school. He was very supportive and kind to me.
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TIL it wasn't just Clever Hans
May 13, 2026 at 9:57 PM
TIL it wasn't just Clever Hans
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Anyone willing to try an online experiment for one of my students? She’s investigating listeners’ ability to discern a real human voice from a deep fake synthetic voice: 🧠💬
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April 28, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Anyone willing to try an online experiment for one of my students? She’s investigating listeners’ ability to discern a real human voice from a deep fake synthetic voice: 🧠💬
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This should be fun! I anticipate much discussion of the pin-pen merger!
Come one, come all, to the Lawrence Public Library THIS SATURDAY 11 am - 2 pm to explore language with KU linguists! We are hosting an interactive drop-in event where folks of all ages can explore the science of language. There will be stickers and buttons and bracelets- what more could you want? 🌻
April 23, 2026 at 3:35 AM
This should be fun! I anticipate much discussion of the pin-pen merger!
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Good article on the declining number of foreign faculty in Korea and the challenges facing Korean universities which are recruiting academics internationally, with some good commentary from Hong Kong and elsewhere
www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...
www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...
Korea's higher education push stalls as foreign faculty numbers decline - The Korea Times
Student enrollment at Korean universities is becoming more internationally diverse than ever before. Yet in contrast, the number of foreign instruc...
www.koreatimes.co.kr
April 22, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2.1 is out now, a special issue on "Hanmun Teaching and Hanmun Grammar" (in OA 🙏) @ www.jospl.org/articles/cur...
April 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2.1 is out now, a special issue on "Hanmun Teaching and Hanmun Grammar" (in OA 🙏) @ www.jospl.org/articles/cur...
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‼️🔔 My paper, "Hypercorrect Moun[tʰɨn] in Utah English", has now been published in English World-Wide. 🎉🥳🎊
tl;dr: Utahns say [tʰ] in words like "mountain" more than people in other regions.
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
tl;dr: Utahns say [tʰ] in words like "mountain" more than people in other regions.
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Hypercorrect Moun[thɨn] in Utah English
Abstract This study analyzes unstressed /tən/ in words like button, kitten, and mountain. In Utah, there are three variants: North American mainstream [ʔn̩], forticized [thɨn], and local [ʔɨn]. While ...
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March 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
‼️🔔 My paper, "Hypercorrect Moun[tʰɨn] in Utah English", has now been published in English World-Wide. 🎉🥳🎊
tl;dr: Utahns say [tʰ] in words like "mountain" more than people in other regions.
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
tl;dr: Utahns say [tʰ] in words like "mountain" more than people in other regions.
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
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English Korean
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March 17, 2026 at 12:03 AM
English Korean
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hengma
🤝
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A somewhat chance encounter with Prof. Chungmin Lee of Seoul National University, in which he illustrated things like contrastive focus and scalar implicature, and I was like "Wait, this is something you can study?"
And that, friends, is how you get a BS in Accounting and a PhD in Linguistics.
And that, friends, is how you get a BS in Accounting and a PhD in Linguistics.
Do you remember how you found out that linguistics existed and was a thing you could get enthusiastic about?
March 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
A somewhat chance encounter with Prof. Chungmin Lee of Seoul National University, in which he illustrated things like contrastive focus and scalar implicature, and I was like "Wait, this is something you can study?"
And that, friends, is how you get a BS in Accounting and a PhD in Linguistics.
And that, friends, is how you get a BS in Accounting and a PhD in Linguistics.
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Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
(Note, I wasted most of my undergrad on a business degree.)
Social Dance 2
Tax Accounting
Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature in Translation
The Eastern European Experience in America
Elements of Japanese Culture
(Note, I wasted most of my undergrad on a business degree.)
Social Dance 2
Tax Accounting
Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature in Translation
The Eastern European Experience in America
Elements of Japanese Culture
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Avoiding English/Ling/Music courses (Majors/Minor)...
Intermediate Jogging
19th Century Russian Literature
Chekhov
Political Philosophy
The Medieval Church
Avoiding English/Ling/Music courses (Majors/Minor)...
Intermediate Jogging
19th Century Russian Literature
Chekhov
Political Philosophy
The Medieval Church
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Typography
Glassblowing
Painting
Packaging
Great Works of The Arts & Crafts Movement
Typography
Glassblowing
Painting
Packaging
Great Works of The Arts & Crafts Movement
January 31, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
(Note, I wasted most of my undergrad on a business degree.)
Social Dance 2
Tax Accounting
Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature in Translation
The Eastern European Experience in America
Elements of Japanese Culture
(Note, I wasted most of my undergrad on a business degree.)
Social Dance 2
Tax Accounting
Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature in Translation
The Eastern European Experience in America
Elements of Japanese Culture
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Do humans assume that AI systems have the expertise to deliver medical or legal advice? Agnieszka Faleńska (www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute...) and I are looking for a postdoc to work on these questions with us. Please reach out for further information www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/de/aktuelles...
New Project and Position:
The interdisciplinary project “Authority Presuppositions in Human-AI Communication” (APHIC) led by Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and Prof. Judith Tonhauser has been accepted, and we are seeking a postdoc or ...
www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Do humans assume that AI systems have the expertise to deliver medical or legal advice? Agnieszka Faleńska (www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute...) and I are looking for a postdoc to work on these questions with us. Please reach out for further information www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/de/aktuelles...
I am planning to be there! Very much looking forward to it.
The program for GURT 2026 ("Futuring Linguistics") is live! Gonna be a good one
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docs.google.com/document/d/1...
GURT 2026 Schedule at a glance
Schedule at a glance Friday, March 6, 2026 10:30 – 3:00 Registration | ICC Galleria 11:00 – 12:00 Pre-conference welcome & workshop for students | ICC 12:00 – 1:30 Lunch b...
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January 21, 2026 at 2:16 AM
I am planning to be there! Very much looking forward to it.
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Do I have an expert on Hakka in my timeline who could check potential loans?
January 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Do I have an expert on Hakka in my timeline who could check potential loans?