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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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His performance on Saturday follows impressive displays throughout the five match series when he has gone for less than three runs an over in the three matches despite taking the new ball and bowling to the ex plosive talents of Brendon McCullum.
Indo-European protolanguage is assumed to have had a complex plosive system with voice and aspiration oppositions.
As shown in this figure, the direction of the frequency shifts in the second formant frequencies (F2s) is important for the intelligibility of the plosive consonants /b/, /d/, and /g/.
 
 
 
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