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How to pronounce plosive in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant
Type of obstruent
Has types glottal catch, glottal plosive, glottal stop, click, labial stop, suction stop

Examples of plosive

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In English and most other European languages, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive.
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I always want to pronounce it with a plosive B, the way Carl Sagan would have.
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The deletion occurs especially if the final consonant is a nasal or a plosive.
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In a sequence of two voiceless obstruents, the second obstruent remains a plosive.
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The velar plosive k is the third reflex and the only one found word-initially.
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The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages.
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Pazeh contrasts a voiced alveolar plosive with a voiceless interdental one.
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Other varieties aspirate a voiceless plosive before a stressed syllable.
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The voiced alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages.
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  • Stop consonant: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
  • (plosion) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant
  • A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. The terms plosive and stop are usually used interchangeably, but they are not perfect synonyms. Plosives are oral stops with a pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism. ...
  • Sound produced from opening a previously closed oral passage; for example, when pronouncing the sound /p/ in "pug"; Produced in this way
  • (plosiveness) The state or condition of being plosive
  • (plosives) low frequency distortion caused by powerful "p" and "b" sounds that overload the microphone.
  • A speech sound made by blocking the air-stream completely with the tongue or lips, allowing the air to burst out after a brief moment, as in English /t/ tea or /b/ bee. See VOICE ONSET TIME.
  • In linguistics, another term for a stop.
  • A sound characterized by a sudden burst of air