2. Heritage Language Features and the Yakama English Dialect

alicia beckford wassink is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, and director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory. She is an affiliate professor in the Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, University of Washington (now iLabs), and an external examiner in phonetics for the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. She has served as principal investigator of the English in the Pacific Northwest study since 2006. She currently serves on the executive council of the American Dialect Society. Wassink’s research interests lie in production and perception of the time-varying features of vowel systems, racial bias in automatic speech recognition, social network modeling, dialect contact, language ideology, development of sociolinguistic competence in children, and creole linguistics. Her work has appeared in Language and Identities (ed. Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt, Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2010), African American Women’s Language (ed. Sonja Lanehart, Cambridge Scholars, 2010), Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide (ed. Marianna Di Paolo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Routledge, 2009), and Language in the Schools (ed. Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck, L. Erlbaum, 2005). Primary reports of her research have appeared in the Publication of the American Dialect Society, American Speech, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Phonetics, Language in Society, Language Variation and Change, Journal of English Linguistics, and the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Email: wassink@uw.edu.

sharon hargus is professor of linguistics at the University of Washington. Her research interests lie in the documentation of endangered languages, particularly phonetics, phonology, and morphology. Her work has appeared in International Journal of American Linguistics, Journal of Laboratory Phonology, Phonology, Anthropological Linguistics, Northwest Journal of Linguistics, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, and Journal of Ethnobiology, among other venues. She started studying Sahaptin in 1989 and (with native speaker Virginia Beavert) has published a dictionary, written articles and presented on all areas of grammar, and prepared thousands of pages of interlinear glossed text for dissemination. Email: sharon@uw.edu.