dl [dl]

Voiced Lateral Affricate

Tłį Chǫ (Dogrib), Behchokǫ̀

seèdlà [sìːdlɑ̀] "it has been fixed"  -  Speaker: SP4

The voiced lateral affricate dl [dl] in stem-initial position between two vowels. This sound is voiced most of the way through the closure and release period. Note also that the release portion of this sound, the lateral [l] portion, is articulated as a fricative during the voiceless portion of the sound at the very beginning of the release period, after which it is voiced and appears as a lateral approximant. The distinction between the two realizations of the release is distinguishable in the waveform and in the spectrogram. This change between the lateral fricative and a lateral approximant is found throughout the Dene languages when voicing is present. 

2018-07-19