Voiced alveolar lateral affricate
The voiced alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨d͡ɮ⟩ (often simplified to ⟨dɮ⟩), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is ⟨λ⟩ (lambda). It is most of the time in free variation or an allophone of /ɮ/, /t͡ɬ/ or /l/; no known language contrasts [dɮ] and [ɮ].
| Voiced alveolar lateral affricate | |
|---|---|
| d͡ɮ | |
| λ | |
| IPA Number | 104 (149) |
| Audio sample | |
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| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | d͡ɮ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+0064 U+0361 U+026E |
| X-SAMPA | dK\ |
Features
Features of the voiced alveolar lateral affricate:
- Its manner of articulation is affricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
- Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
- Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- It is a lateral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue, rather than down the middle.
- The airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
Voiced alveolar lateral affricates are rare. Sandawe has been transcribed with [dɮ], but the sound is more post-alveolar or palatal than alveolar. Consonants written dl in Athabaskan and Wakashan languages are either tenuis affricates, [t͜ɬ] (perhaps slightly voiced allophonically), or have a lateral release, [tˡ] or [dˡ]. In Montana Salish, /l/ may be prestopped, depending on context, in which case it may be realized as [ᵈl] or as an affricate [ᵈɮ̤].[1] In the Nguni languages [d͡ɮ] occurs after nasals: /nɮ̤/ is pronounced [nd͡ɮ̤], with an epenthetic stop, in at least Xhosa[2] and Zulu.[3]
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avá-Canoeiro[4] | Tocantins[4] | [ˌtaːˈpid͡ɮɐ] | 'Tapirus terrestris' | Possible realisation of /l/. In the speech of people aged 40 to 80 years, the consonant is in free variation with [dl], [dʎ], [ʎ], [ɖ], [ɮ] and [l].[4] | |
| Cherokee[5] | ᏜᎺᎭ dlameha | [d͡ɮameha] | 'bat' (mammal) | Syllable onset and intervocalic allophone of /t͡ɬ/. See Cherokee phonology | |
| Deg Xinag[6] | sichidl | [sət͡ʃʰəd͡ɮ] | 'my younger brother' | Syllable-final realization of /t͡ɬ/.[6] | |
| Montana Salish | p̓əllič̓č | [pʼəd͡ɮɮít͡ʃʼt͡ʃ] | 'turned over' | Positional allophone of /l/ | |
| Xhosa | indlovu | [ind͡ɮ̤ɔːv̤u] | 'elephant' | Allophone of /ɮ̤/ after /n/ | |
| Pa Na[7] | [d͡ɮau˩˧] | 'deep' | |||
References
- Edward Flemming; Peter Ladefoged; Sarah Thomason (1994). "Phonetic structures of Montana Salish". UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics. 87 (7).
- Scarraffiotti (2011) Parlons Xhosa p. 13
- Rycroft & Ngcobo (1979) Say it in Zulu, p. 6
- Silva (2015:45)
- Uchihara, Hiroto (2013). Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). Buffalo: State University of New York. p. 12.
- Hargus, Sharon (2009). Vowel quality and duration in Yukon Deg Xinag (PDF). Seattle, University of Washington. p. 2.
- Chen, Qiguang [陈其光] (2001), A Brief Introduction of Bana Language [巴那语概况], Minzu Yuwen
Bibliography
- Silva, Ariel Pheula do Couto e (2015). Elementos de fonologia, morfossintaxe e sintaxe da língua Avá-Canoeiro do Tocantins (Master's dissertation). University of Brasília. doi:10.26512/2015.03.D.18519.
