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. She retired in 2021.[2]

Siri Tuttle
Photograph of Tuttle holding a phone
Tuttle at the International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation in Manoa
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineAthabaskan languages
InstitutionsAlaska 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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5][6]

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

References
  1. "Home | Alaska Native Language Archive". www.uaf.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  2. "Walkie Charles to lead Alaska Native Language Center". 27 July 2021.
  3. "Tuttle named Alaska Native Language Archive director | Elmer E. Rasmuson Library". library.uaf.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  4. Tuttle, Siri (2009). Benhti Kokht'ana Kenaga': Lower Tanana Pocket Dictionary. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
  5. "CoLang Instructors - Siri Tuttle | Projects with Native American Languages of the Southwest | Linguistics & TESOL | UT Arlington". www.uta.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  6. "LSA 2009". lsa2009.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
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