Velar lateral sounds are rare and their acoustics and contextual effects are understudied. Positional variants of velar laterals are also rarely reported. This paper documents a previously unknown allophony pattern of the velar lateral in Mee (Trans New Guinea; Indonesia), based on an elicitation study with two speakers and a controlled set of recordings from one of the speakers. Our main dataset included carrier phrase recordings of Mee words with the velar lateral, representing the diverse set of contexts where the velar lateral occurs. Our acoustic findings suggest that the Mee velar lateral is realized as a laterally released velar stop [ɡᶫ] before front vowels, and with uvular closure followed by a fricative release [ɢʁ] before back vowels. In line with this description, we found differences in the second formant of the preceding vowel and the periodicity of the release for the two allophones. We explore the implications of our findings for the typology of velar laterals.

软腭侧向声音很少见，它们的声学和​​上下文影响未被充分研究。软颚外侧的位置变异也很少报道。本文记录了 Mee（跨新几内亚；印度尼西亚）以前未知的软颚外侧同位异音模式，基于对两名发言者的启发研究和其中一名发言者的一组受控录音。我们的主要数据集包括带有软颚外侧的 Mee 词的载体短语记录，代表了软颚外侧出现的各种上下文。我们的声学研究结果表明，Mee 软腭侧音在前元音之前被实现为侧向释放的软颚塞音 [ɡᶫ]，小舌闭合后是擦音释放 [ɢ ʁ] 在后元音之前。根据这一描述，我们发现前一个元音的第二共振峰和两个同位异音的释放周期存在差异。我们探讨了我们的发现对软颚外侧肌类型学的影响。