2 examples
North Slavey, Deline - Phoneme: t [tx] - IPA: Alveolar affricate with a velar release
Word: tenę [txenẽ] "pail" - Speaker: SP5
1 The t [tx] in this position is an alveolar stop followed by velar fricative, visible in the spectrogram. The velar fricative release is a distinctive property of this sound, and makes this sound quite unlike the English aspirated stop t. The t [tx] is shown here in word initial position.
2 Word medial (stem initial) position
Word: ɂehtį́ [ʔehtxĩ́] "bow" - Speaker: SP5
The t [tx] sound in this word is in stem initial position, but word medial following a glottal fricative [h]. The closure and release periods of the t [tx] are clearly seen in this example. The velar fricative offglide is an audible property of this sound.
