Phonology (LINGUISTICS) with Nicole Holliday — Encore Presentation

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Alie is delirious with the flu, so it’s an encore presentation of a favorite episode. If you slept on this when it first aired, get into Phonology now. Vocal fry. Code switching. Black Twitter. Valley girls. Culture vultures. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TALKING. Alie battles traffic to sit down with linguistics professor Dr. Nicole Holliday about intonational phonology: how tones and pitch help us bond with others and construct identities. Inspired in part by former President Barack Obama's masterful linguistic variability, Dr. Holliday's work focuses on how language is used in the crossing and construction of racial/ethnic boundaries. She graciously fielded tons of questions for a fascinating dive into the nuances and strict grammatical rules of African American Language, cultural appropriation, our educational system, honoring your identity, what not to wear in Paris and the roiling debate over who is the best rapper. Also: Alie is maybe a lizard person.

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0:00.0	Oh hello, it's all dadward and I am sick as hell.
0:05.7	Uh, it is Monday?
0:08.4	The Monday after Thanksgiving 2019 and I had a new episode for y'all and then I got this
0:14.4	little sidetracked by sweating and shivering and holding my head and asking my pillow why,
0:21.0	why, why me, why, why?
0:23.5	I'm a human being so I told myself I would take it easy this week and give y'all an
0:28.3	encore presentation there are so many people who have not heard this episode.
0:31.8	So if you happen to sleep on it last summer when it first went up, get into it now.
0:36.4	Thisology doesn't roll off the tongue easily but it's all about tongues and dialects and
0:41.7	the way that we hear language it is so good.
0:45.0	So enjoy this week's episode I'll be back next week with a brand new one and a diminished
0:51.4	viral load hopefully.
0:53.1	Okay, here we go.
0:54.6	Oh hi, hi.
0:57.8	It's your weird coworker, the one who brings in lemons from their tree but also sometimes
1:02.8	micro waves fish.
1:04.7	Alleyboard for another episode of allergies.
1:07.7	Okay, so guess what I'm doing now.
1:09.4	I'm using a big glob of fat and nerves that I keep in a bone bowl behind my eyes to make
1:16.3	noises to represent my thoughts and then I beam those grunts to a satellite using invisible
1:22.3	data transmission and then your nerve fat glob is like, totally, yeah, I get it.
1:28.0	So my brain to your brain is magic people.
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