dz [dz]

Voiced Alveolar Affricate

Tłį Chǫ (Dogrib), Behchokǫ̀

1. godzaà [gʊdzɑ̀ː] "leg"  -  Speaker: SP2

The voiced alveolar affricate dz [dz] in intervocalic and stem-initial position. The closure period is voiced; this is seen in the waveform and in the voicing bar at the bottom of the spectrogram. The release period, the fricative, is only partially voiced. A small release burst, the release of the [d] closure, is visible halfway through the segment at the beginning of the fricative [z] portion. Stem-initial position is a strong position for phoneme sounds. It is proper to call this segment a voiced affricate, though there is a good deal of variation in its voicing across speakers and across tokens. 

2018-07-19

2. adzęzaà [ʔɑdzezɑ̀ː] "moon"  -  Speaker: SP4

The alveolar affricate dz [dz] in intervocalic position. Compared to the last example, the affricate in this token is less voiced.  Note the difference in the transition from the fricative portion of the sound to the vowel in this example as compared to that in the ts [tsʰ] examples. 

2018-07-19