| Siri Tuttle | |
| Discipline: | Linguist |
| Sub Discipline: | Athabaskan languages |
| Workplaces: | Alaska Native Language Center |
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]
Tuttle started working an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2003. 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]
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]