Preface

marianna di paolo is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and founding chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Utah and a research associate at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Recent collaborative publications include “The Peripatetic History of Middle English *ɛ̄—” (in Reader in Sociophonetics [de Gruyter, 2010]), Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide (Routledge, 2011), and Languages and Dialects in the U.S.: Focus on Diversity and Linguistics (Routledge, 2014). She has chaired the Linguistic Society of America’s Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics, launched the Best Practices in Sociophonetics workshops, and served on the Utah State Supreme Court Committee on Model Utah Jury Instructions–Civil. As director of the Shoshoni Language Project (SLP), she oversees the Wick R. Miller Collection. The SLP develops Shoshoni language curricula (preK–12 and university), dictionaries, and bilingual books; provides teacher training; and has offered the Shoshone/Goshute Youth Language Apprenticeship Program. The SLP is a recipient of the National Indian Education Association’s William G. Demmert Cultural Freedom Award. E-mail: [email protected].