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plosive
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plosive.
See stop.

plosive (plō´siv),
n any speech sound made by impounding the airstream for a moment until considerable pressure has been developed and then suddenly releasing it (e.g.,
b, d, and
g). One of two types of stop consonants, the other being affricative (e.g.,
ch).


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Wiik (1997a) assumes that the aspirated plosives (traditionally symbolised as ph, th, kh, bh, dh, gh) were actually pronounced with friction in the place of articulation.
On the other hand, a change in stimulation site could be recognized over the shorter durations of consonants [105] and was thus appropriate for transmitting the frequency shifts seen in the consonants characterized as plosives (/b/, /d/, /g/, /p/, /t/, /k/) and nasals (/m/, /n/, /ng/).
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