Siri Tuttle

Siri Tuttle is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she has been employed since 2003. She specializes in Dene (Athabascan) languages of interior Alaska and has contributed to the fields of acoustic phonetics, phonology, and morphology. 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. In 2016, Tuttle was named director of the Alaska Native Language Archive.

Tuttle is active in Lower Tanana language revitalization efforts, and has published critical reference materials such as the Benhti Kokht’ana Kenaga’: Lower Tanana Pocket Dictionary.

• (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.
• (1997). Hargus, Sharon and Siri Tuttle. "Augmentation as Affixation in Athabaskan Languages". Phonology 14:2, 177-220.