ch’  [tʃ]

Dene Sųłiné, Lac Brochet  -  Phoneme: ch’ [tʃ']  -  IPA:  Post-alveolar ejective affricate.

Word: ghelch’úl [ɣɛltʃ’úl] "smile"  -  Speaker: SP9

An ejective post-alveolar affricate ch’ in stem initial position between two vowels. This token demonstrates a common characteristic of affricates: the closure period, not the rleease period, is compressed in this position. The release period maintains its duration and quality.



 
denespeechatlas@rochester.edu  © Joyce McDonough 2012