Plosive
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A plosive (/pləʊsɪv/) or stop is a consonant sound in which the vocal tract is blocked so that is a consonant so that all airflow ceases. [1]
Plosives can be distinguished by their place of occlusion; tongue tip ([t], [d]) tongue body ([k], [ɡ]), lips ([p], [b]), or glottis ([ʔ]).
The plosives in the standard English phonemes are:
- alveolar stop /t/ and /d/
- bilabial stop /p/ and /b/
- velar stop /k/ and /g/
- glottal stop /ʔ/
