Assistant Professor Nicole Holliday discusses her recently published research in the Journal of English Linguistics.

The intonation Black/biracial men use to speak about race

In a study of college-educated biracial men, ages 18 to 32, sociolinguist Nicole Holliday found that, when asked about race, this group frequently brought up law enforcement unprompted and discussed the subject using vocal tone more generally associated with white speakers.

For the full article in Penn Today:

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-linguistics-research-intonation-Black-biracial-men-use-speak-about-race

For the abstract in the Journal of english Linguistics:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00754242211024722?journalCode=enga