Siri Tuttle is the former director of the

Alaska Native Language Center The Alaska Native Language Center, established in 1972 in Fairbanks, Alaska, is a research center focusing on the research and documentation of the Native languages of Alaska. It publishes grammars, dictionaries, folklore collections and research m ...

, the

Alaska Native Language Archive The Michael E. Krauss Alaska Native Language Archive (ANLA) in Fairbanks, Alaska, is an extensive repository for manuscripts and recordings documenting the Native Languages of Alaska. The Archive was created as part of the Alaska Native Language C ...

, and a former Associate Professor of Linguistics at the

University of Alaska, Fairbanks The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-grant research university in College, Alaska, a suburb of Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for cla ...

. She specializes in

Dene The Dene people () are an Aboriginal peoples in Canada, indigenous group of First Nations in Canada, First Nations who inhabit the northern Boreal forest of Canada, boreal and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languag ...

(

Athabascan Athabaskan (also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific Co ...

) languages of interior Alaska and has contributed to the fields of

acoustic phonetics Acoustic phonetics is a subfield of phonetics, which deals with acoustic aspects of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics investigates time domain features such as the mean squared amplitude of a waveform, its duration, its fundamental frequency, o ...

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

, and

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines * Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts * Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies ...

. She retired in 2021.

Biography

Tuttle started working an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the

at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2003. She specializes in

(

) languages of interior Alaska and has contributed to the fields of

, and

. In 2016, Tuttle was named director of the

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''. She is well known for her documentary and descriptive language work in

Lower Tanana Lower Tanana (also Tanana and/or Middle Tanana) is an endangered language spoken in Interior Alaska in the lower Tanana River villages of Minto and Nenana. Of about 380 Tanana people in the two villages, about 30 still speak the language. As of ...

and

Ahtna The Ahtna (also Ahtena, Atna, Ahtna-kohtaene, or Copper River) are an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. The people's homeland called Atna Nenn', is located in the Copper River area of souther ...

, and has also conducted linguistic fieldwork in New Mexico, California, and Arizona.

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

References

External links

Curriculum Vitae

Sustainable Heritage Network: Language Work and Language Collections
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