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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
accommodation
alliterative
alveolar
apheresis
aphesis
assonance
diphthong
homonym
intrusive
labial
labialize
labiodental
postconsonantal
retroflex
retroflexion
rhotic
rhyme
the International Phonetic Alphabet
unpronounceable
unrepeatable

Examples of plosive

plosive
There is evidence to suggest that forms transcribed as simultaneous or sequentially ordered oral and laryngeal gestures may in fact represent unreleased plosive forms.
The validity of this distinction has been demonstrated in detailed studies of disorders affecting voice onset time in plosives.
In a nine-minute conversational sample he found 206 words ending in voiceless plosives, of which 61 occurred in turn-final position and 145 in turn-medial position.
In this paper, a phonetic account of phonological plosive assibilation has been proposed as a case of a phonetically based phonological process.
Both cases involve a preceding alveolar nasal and a following bilabial plosive.
A range of consonants (although rarely plosives) was deleted.
On the other hand, affricates, like plosives, fail to pattern with fricatives on their right edge.
This pattern was consistent across all plosives for each child.
On the other hand, she uses glottal closure invariably before final voiceless plosives.
The contrast between voiced and voiceless fricatives and plosives is neutralized in final position.
This is not the case for voiceless plosives, however, and both aspirated and unaspirated voiceless plosives have an abducted glottis throughout oral closure.
Both of the successive bilingual children acquired voiced plosives before their voiceless counterparts.
This difference is related to the phonetic difference between audible plosive release and inaudible plosive closure.
Feature economy in sound systems 305 include plosives and affricates.
Word-final plosives preceded by vowels are not deleted.
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