Instant Phonetic Englishization: dloo_ch!ee.
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Light Pronunciations of the Ejective Affricate [ čʼ ]: In our transcriptions of what she says in
this interview segment, we give Lolly credit, so to speak, for having a light
pronunciation of an ejective at the beginning of the second syllable of this
word for the first and third times that she says the word in this interview
segment. With ejective ɑffricates such
as [ čʼ ] the noisiness of the fricative release of the affricate makes it
hard to hear the popping sound of an ejective. However, the fact that we hear what we call a
‘heavy pronunciation’ of the ejective affricate in Lolly’s second time
pronouncing this word in this interview segment is what makes us think that the
first and third times saying the word have light ejective pronunciations. That and how Jacobs heard Annie Miner
Peterson say this word when dictating Milluk texts is what really tells us that
Lolly might be trying to say an ejective in this word at all.
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