plosive consonant


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Noun1.plosive consonant - a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
occlusive, plosive, plosive speech sound, stop consonant, stop
obstruent - a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth
implosion - the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant
plosion, explosion - the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant
labial stop - a stop consonant that is produced with the lips
glottal catch, glottal plosive, glottal stop - a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis; as in the sudden onset of a vowel
suction stop, click - a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
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Plosive consonant phonemes show substitution errors in which these consonants are replaced by phonemes with a different articulation point.
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Based on the data, the ISP consonant phonemes has totaling 19 units phonemes which consists of; seven plosive consonant phonemes /[MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]/ four nasal consonants /[MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]/, two affricate consonants /[MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]/, two fricative consonant phonemes /[MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]/, one vibrations consonant /[MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]/, and two a half vowel consonants /[MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]/.
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Linguists have always agreed that the contrasting laryngeal feature for plosive consonants in Italian, French, Spanish, and Russian is indeed voicing (henceforth [voice], which is the standard way to mark the laryngeal phonological feature of voicing).
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Several studies of Brazilian Portuguese have demonstrated the processes most often observed in phonologic disorders, such as simplification of consonant encounter, simplification of liquid consonants, elimination of the final consonant, deafening of fricative or plosive consonants, frontalization of palatal consonants, simplification of velar consonants and plosivization of fricative consonants.
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The two characteristics that occur in most of these names are the back 'a' sound and plosive consonants.
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In this sequence with a student, the teacher begins by having the student use a semioccluded posture throughout the pattern, then uses it as a pilot into a pattern, then segues into using transitory occlusions (the pattern of plosive consonants followed by vowels with low first formant frequencies).
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Plosive consonants are to be articulated without aspiration.
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