plosive , auch: stop , ***

The terms stop, occlusive, and plosive are often used interchangeably.

Of the consonants produced, the general purpose plosive is very convincing.

Depending on the region, the plosives are either alveolar or dental.

All the following sounds are thought to have been plosives in Attic Greek.

The plosives have a voicing contrast primarily found in word-initial position.

Plosives without audible release are common in the Lithuanian.

A very short homorganic nasal is added before a voiced plosive.

The third phase, which had the most limited geographical range, saw the voiced plosives become voiceless.

In other cases, however, it may be the word 'plosive' which is restricted to the glottal stop.

The Tamil script does not differentiate voiced and unvoiced plosives.

(She stresses the difference among plosives, fricatives and affricates, for example).

A small puff of air often occurs in the release of voiceless plosive.

A slight stammer presented itself on the plosive.

Plain plosives are usually unaspirated, and can be voiced in some environments.

With voiced plosives, the nasalization is two-thirds the duration of the consonant.

Vowel diacritics attach in the same way as they would to the corresponding plain plosive.

Under the normal operation of the law, voiceless plosives become fricatives in Germanic.

The use of a windshield as well as a pop shield, designed to reduce vocal plosives.

The plosives tend to be somewhat aspirated initially and voiced medially.

The majority of plosives are voiceless in final position due to a devoicing process affecting other sounds as well.

Plosives are unvoiced if they occur word-initially or doubled.

Other varieties aspirate a voiceless plosive before a stressed syllable.

The thirdman's voice drums on and on, every plosive a barrage.

He laughed as he pushed the clock into the ex plosives and molded the plastic around it.

Plosives and affricates also have a third, aspirated member of the series (except for the single glottal stop).

The name has no plosive sounds and he managed it very well.

Someone had fired an ex- plosive amulet or something similar at them.

It disappeared with a soft plosive sound - as if someone had popped a paper sack.

Any plosive effects are then controlled by means of pop shields and meshes.

Plenty of emphasis on the plosive consonant at the end of the word.

The plosive p was lost, but Franklin understood.

When he stuttered over the plosive sounds, spittle flew from his lips.

This consonant in an exaggerated form is the plosive sound heard in coughing.

Powell caught part of Plosive image, followed it to the letter P..

The release is a sharp, plosive sound.

"I think she'd seek the ultimate o for plosive emotions want to celebrate that they were both alive in the most tumultuous way."

The journalist insisted that it was "ex- plosive force," "projecting power."

There is another set of sounds, known as the unvoiced and plosive sounds, which are created or modified by the mouth in different fashions.

Old Norse has six plosive phonemes.

Part of its magic was the sound it made, a great hollow 'whump' that pre-dated the current, plosive crack.

Sealed parts rup- tured with plosive sounds and an occasional sharp crack.

A voiced glottal plosive canʼt be made, as the glottis needs to be closed.

Yolngu languages have a fortis-lenis contrast in plosive consonants.

Protective wind screens can reduce the danger of damaging a vintage ribbon, and also reduce plosive artifacts in the recording.

Phonemically, all plosive consonants are voiceless.

However, the phonetic nature of many sounds is thought to have changed radically, as a whole set of plosive sounds has turned into fricatives.

Most speech sounds, except the plosions of plosive consonants, are capable of being continued during a longer or shorter period.

Vowels are not difficult for stutterers; plosive consonants like D, P and T are.

Later, in the last of the light, a series of plosive "huffs" betrayed a family of lipstick-pink river dolphins hunting close by.