Siri Tuttle
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Siri Tuttle | |
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 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 |
Siri Tuttle is an American linguist and professor specializing in Navajo linguistics, Athabaskan (Dene) languages, phonetics, phonology, and language documentation.
She is Professor of Navajo Linguistics at Navajo Technical University, where she has taught since 2021.
She is the former director of the Alaska Native Language Center[1], the Alaska Native Language Archive, and a former Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.[2] She specializes in Dene (Athabascan) languages of interior Alaska and has contributed to the fields of acoustic phonetics, phonology, and morphology.[3]
Tuttle started working an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2003.[2] 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.[4] She retired from the University of Alaska in 2021.[5] In 2023 she was appointed Professor of Navajo Linguistics at Navajo Technical University.[6] where she is helping to create a doctoral program.[7]
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.[8] 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.[9][10]