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As the recipient of a National Science Foundation
graduate fellowship (1971-74), Miss Briggs did field work
on Aymara dialects in Bolivia and Peru in 1972 and in
1973-74. Her publications include a chapter on the Aymara
noun system in the grammar produced by the Aymara Language
Materials Project and numerous articles on the language,
and she has read several scholarly papers, most recently
at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association at San Francisco in December 1975. In addi-
tion to pursuing an interest in anthropological linguis-
tics, Miss Briggs has taught English as a foreign language
in Korea, in Washington, D. C., and at the English Language
Institute of the University of Florida, and is interested
in broad aspects of intercultural communication. She
speaks fluent Spanish and French and has a useful knowl -
edge of Portuguese and Aymara.

Miss Briggs is a member of the American Anthro-
pological Association, the Asociaci6n de Lingiiistica y
Filologfa de América Latina (ALFAL), the Instituto de
Lengua y Cultura Aymara (La Paz, Bolivia), the Inter-
national Linguistic Association, the Latin American
Studies Association, the Linguistic Society of America,
the Modern Language Association, and the Cosmopolitan
Business and Professional Women's Club (Washington, D. C.),
and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Aymara

Foundation, Inc.