plosive

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Editorial note

"Flapping plosive at the bottom of a long tube.

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Quick take

a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of plosive gathered in one view.

noun

a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for plosive.

noun

a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"

Example sentences

"Flapping plosive at the bottom of a long tube.

A word which, fittingly, itself starts with a plosive.

Probably because it lacks hard plosive consonants my first language is riddled with.

" And the first thing I noticed was the vocals on this was horrible - poppy plosives and screaming fricatives.

h1eǵhs can't be related to h2eǵ-, since the laryngeals and plosive phonations are different.

Use a pop filter to get the plosives under control and a multiband compressor for the fricatives.

But if full-band music gets piped through it will sound roughly like that music is being produced by a flapping plosive at the bottom of a long tube.

Of course Philadephia is pronounced with fricative 'f' sounds instead of plosive 'p' sounds, because the Greek letter for that sound is 'phi'.

Mexicans don't pronounce 'bueno' with an initial fricative, and people from Spain don't pronounce 'estuvo' with a plosive at the beginning of the final syllable.

The definition for affricate made me feel real stupid again when I didn't understand almost every third word in the Google provided definition:>a phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation

The plosive phonation distinction isn't as relevant here as the laryngeals - for one thing, the reconstruction h1eǵhs isn't certain, even by the Greek evidence - but the numbered laryngeals were entirely different consonants, which only form a class insofar as they all disappear in non-Anatolian IE.