2 examples
North Slavey, Deline - Phoneme: r [ɹ] - IPA: Central approximant, rhotic.
1 Word: retł’e [ɹɛtɬ’ɛ] "writing" - Speaker: SP6
An r sound (a rhotic) in word intial position.
2 Word: suri [suɹi] "best" - Speaker: SP6
Contrast this example with the previous one. In this example, the r sound is intervocalic and strongly voiced. The characteristic dip of the third formant found in rhotic appproximants is visible in the spectrogram.
