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Voiceless bilabial plosive [p]
The voiceless bilabial plosive [p] is a bilabial stop sound that’s voiced - a type of plosive consonant sound.
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Features[edit | edit source]
The voiceless bilabial plosive has the following features:
- It’s a voiceless consonant, meaning that the vocal cords do not vibrate when producing this sound.
- Its manner of articulation is as a plosive, which means the sound is produced by blocking the airflow completely and then releasing it suddenly.
- Its place of articulation is bilabial, so it’s made with the lips together.
Classification[edit | edit source]
It forms a consonant pair with the voiced bilabial stop [b].
Representation[edit | edit source]
In phonetic notation using the International Phonetic Alphabet, the voiceless bilabial plosive is represented by lowercase P, ⟨p⟩ as its IPA symbol. This has the IPA number 101. In SAMPA and X-SAMPA, p is also used. In IPA Braille, ⠏ (1234) is used, which is also used for letter P in standard Braille.
English[edit | edit source]
In English, [p] is the standard pronunciation for the P phoneme /p/.
