Jeff Holliday


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  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Linguistics

Contact Info

417 Blake Hall
Lawrence
1541 Lilac Lane
LAWRENCE, KS 66045

Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2012

Research

  • Phonetics
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Korean

Selected Publications

Holliday, J. (To appear). L2 consonant learning. In C. Chapelle (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2nd Edition.

Jung, H. & Holliday, J. (To appear). The perception of foreign accent in isolated Korean words. International Journal of Applied Linguistics.

Wade, L., Hausthor, T., & Holliday, J. (To appear). What makes a speaker sound Kansan? It depends who you ask. American Speech.

Lee, H., Kong, E. J., & Holliday, J. (2024). The perception and production of Korean stops in second dialect acquisition. JASA Express Letters, 4(6), 065202.

Selected Presentations

Xue, J., Holliday, J., & Xu, K. (December 2025). “Adaptive phonetic cue-weighting in non-native perception: An eyetracking study”. 19th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL 19). Guangzhou, China.

Holliday, J., Brown, J., Kook, R., Park, S., & Thompson, G. (October 2025). "The L2 phonolexical encoding of Japanese consonantal length: A replication". 30th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. Bloomington, IN.

Yang, T.-H., & Holliday, J. (October 2025). Exploring variability in cross-language sibilant perceptual mapping. 30th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. Bloomington, IN.

Lee, J., & Holliday. J. (April 2025). "Perceptual assimilation across allophones". 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2025). Toronto, Canada.

Holliday, J., & Zellou, G. (June 2024) “Cross-linguistic perception of nasal coarticulation in an unfamiliar language.” 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.