plosive in English

noun
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a plosive speech sound. The basic plosives in English are t , k , and p (voiceless) and d , g , and b (voiced).
He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
adjective
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denoting a consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate, followed by a sudden release of air.
He is not yet comfortable in its ever so Russian skin, that demands a concrete command of affective articulation, and which duplicates, in compositional categories, the fruity vowels and plosive consonants of Russian speech.
noun

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "plosive" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "plosive", or refer to the context using the word "plosive" in the English Dictionary.

1. Affricates consonants consisting of plosive (obstruent) and fricative elements; for example, Russian ts and ch

2. The velar ejective /k͜xʼ/ varies between a plosive , a central affricate , a lateral affricate , and a fricative .

3. Where Cacophony is associated with plosive consonants, euphony is associated with sibilance, long vowel sounds, and harmonious consonants

4. "Slap Tubes and Other Plosive Aerophones" is a slim volume, but full of excellent, practical information

5. Plosive Aerophones are musical instruments in which a body of air is set into vibration by a sudden blow

6. The voiceless Bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is [p], and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p.The voiceless Bilabial plosive in English is spelled with 'p', as in pit or speed.

7. Point is, if the model is accurate it's like describing how sounds are articulated phonetically, how the/b/sound is a voiced Bilabial plosive.

8. A Bilabial (from bi-two and labia lip) plosive is a sound in which the flow of air out of the body is interrupted by closing the lips together

9. Affricate — noun (C) technical a consonant sound consisting of a plosive such as, or, that is immediately followed by a fricative pronounced in the same part of the mouth, such as s or z

10. The voiceless Bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in most spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is p , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p.

11. Furthermore, the Assonantly rhymed ‘judder like a juggernaut’ and the plosive alliteration in ‘bed’ ‘broad’ and ‘belly’ creates unity but also an unsettling dark humor, leading readers to consider which identities truly experience the full scope of human desire.

12. An Affricate is a type of obstruent consonant the occlusion of which, when it is pronounced, does not terminate with the explosion of the plosive organs of speech but with their incomplete closure, which causes the formation of a fricative.

13. An Affricate is a type of obstruent consonant the occlusion of which, when it is pronounced, does not terminate with the explosion of the plosive organs of speech but with their incomplete closure, which causes the formation of a fricative.

14. CC clusters consist of a continuant followed by a plosive, fricative, or affricate; in CCC clusters, the first consonant must be one of /r/ /j/ /m/ /p/ or /pʼ/, the second either /n/ or a voiceless fricative, and the third /t/ or /k/.

15. Affricates = plosive manner + nasal manner All of the consonant sounds described so far are produced with either a complete obstruction of the airflow (plosives and nasals) or a narrowing of the mouth passage (fricatives). One pair of consonants, however, is produced by a combination of these two methods

16. The single Affricate consonant has been most commonly described as alveolar, though some sources describe it as postalveolar.: Der einzelne affrikate Konsonant wurde meist als Alveolar beschrieben, obwohl einige Quellen ihn auch als Postalveolar beschreiben.: A method as in claim 1, wherein the part of consonant has a waveform of gradation, Affricate, extrusion or plosive, and the part of wind

17. Affricates – an affricate is a consonant which begins as a stop (plosive), characterized by a complete obstruction of the outgoing airstream by the articulators, a build up of air pressure in the mouth, and finally releases as a fricative, a sound produced by forcing air through a constricted space, which produces turbulence when the air is forced trough a smaller opening.

18. Affricate, also known as semiplosive, is a phoneme (a distinct sound unit like /k/, /l/, and /r/) which specifically merges a plosive (a consonant that is produced by interrupting airflow like p, b, and t) with a fricative (a consonant produced by airflow through the narrow opening between the teeth or between the lip and teeth like /sh/, /f/ and /th/); having similar articulation

19. The output of a noise canceling first or second order electret gradient microphone in a very high noise environment has background noise attenuated and certain phonemes shaped to improve intelligibility by means of a slow action automatic gain control circuit (22) which matches dynamic range of the microphone (10) with dynamic range of the following communication channel, and a fast action automatic gain control circuit (24) in parallel with the first circuit, that reshapes puff noise into plosive, fricative and affricative speech component signals that produced the puff noise.