Siri Tuttle

Siri Tuttle is the former director of the Alaska Native Language Center, the Alaska Native Language Archive, and a former Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.^[1] She specializes in Dene (Athabascan) languages of interior Alaska and has contributed to the fields of acoustic phonetics, phonology, and morphology.

Siri Tuttle
Tuttle at the International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation in Manoa
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Athabaskan languages
Institutions	Alaska Native Language Center

Biography

Tuttle started working an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2003.^[1] She specializes in Dene (Athabascan) languages of interior Alaska and has contributed to the fields of acoustic phonetics, phonology, and morphology. In 2016, Tuttle was named director of the Alaska Native Language Archive.^[2] She retired from the University of Alaska in 2021.^[3] In 2023 she was appointed Professor of Navajo Linguistics at Navajo Technical University.^[4] where she is helping to create a doctoral program.^[5]

Research

Tuttle is active in Lower Tanana language revitalization efforts, and has published reference materials such as the Benhti Kokht’ana Kenaga’: Lower Tanana Pocket Dictionary.^[6] She is well known for her documentary and descriptive language work in Lower Tanana and Ahtna, and has also conducted linguistic fieldwork in New Mexico, California, and Arizona.^[7][8]

Publications

• (2009) Tuttle, Siri. Ahtna Athabascan Grammar Reference. Chistochina: Mount Sanford Tribal Consortium.
• (2009) Tuttle, Siri. Benhti Kokht’ana Kenaga’: Lower Tanana Pocket Dictionary. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. ISBN 978-1555001001
• (1997). Hargus, Sharon and Siri Tuttle. "Augmentation as Affixation in Athabaskan Languages". Phonology 14:2, 177-220. JSTOR 4420100