plosives in English

noun

1

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.

noun

occlusive, stop, stop consonant

Use "plosives" in a sentence

1. Amulae!!: rer; cf plosives have found way

2. Continuants contrast with occlusives, such as plosives, affricates and nasals.

3. A simple way of teaching Bilabial plosives /b/ and /p/ to a class

4. Voiced affricates and voiced plosives are generated from a combination of structured waveforms and stored data.

5. All plosives, affricates, nasals, the retroflex flap and the lateral approximant /l/ have aspirated or breathy voiced counterparts.

6. English has two Bilabial plosives — /p/ in which the vocal chords are not used (voiceless) as in p izza and p e pp er , …

7. The voiceless Alveolar, dental and postAlveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages

8. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, Alveolar, and postAlveolar plosives is ⟨ t ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t.

9. It was shown that linguodental affricates and dorsofaucal plosives were especially affected, even preoperatively, in patients with T3 and T4 tumors, while additional deterioration of speech function occurred postoperatively.

10. 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