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Instant Phonetic Englishization: Like the English word ‘goth’, but instead of putting the tongue between the teeth and making a voiceless fricative sound, the tongue is in position to make the consonant L, to make a voiceless fricative sound. Annie Miner Peterson’s voiced uvular consonant is farther back in the throat.
There are quite a few other examples of this sound correspondence where Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk velar consonant, in this case a voiced velar stop consonant [ g ], corresponds to Annie Miner Peterson’s uvular consonant, which in this case is a voiced uvular stop consonant [ ɢ ]. In our modernized Americanist transcriptions we redundantly put a dot under the modern phonetic symbol for a voiced uvular stop consonant [ ɢ ] to make it more like Jacobs’ old-fashioned dot put under a lower case letter g.
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