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Yolanda Feimster Holt

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  • Yolanda Feimster Holt is Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at East Carolina University. She received her PhD from the Ohio State University. She conducts research on speech production and perception with an emphasis on African American English and Southern American English dialects. She is particularly interested in the implementation of speech modeling of socio-ethnic and regional dialects for use in text-to-speech voice production devices and mechanical listening systems (e.g. Alexa, Siri, Google and the like). Her other research interests are socio-phonetics, American English regional dialect variation broadly, sound change, bilingual speech production and child speech development. She has authored or coauthored numerous publications and presented her work at national and international meetings. She serves as a peer reviewer for scholarly journals and serves as an editorial member of the Journal of the National Black Association for Speech Language Hearing (JNBASLH). website:http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/ppsholt/

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professional service activities

  • ASHA 2023 Topic Chair 2022 - 2023
  • National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing Convention Public Relations and Social Media Committee 2015 - 2023
  • ASHA Journals We are so pleased to have you serve on an ASHA journal's editorialboard! This welcome package is designed to help orient you to theeditorial board and guide you to the resources and tools that youcan rely on throughout your term.In this welcome package, you will find links and contact points. Thefinal page contains a summary of resources and contacts forat-a-glance use.We appreciate your service, and we look forward to the year ahead.Michael J. CannonSenior Director, Serial Publications and Editorial ServicesAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2022
  • Reviewer Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2017
  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) ;ASHA Special Topics in Speech Sound Disorders Convention Committee, member, 2016-2017

    2016

preferred title

  • Associate Professor