0 a consonant sound that is made by stopping air flowing out of the mouth, and then suddenly releasing it:
/p/ and /d/ are examples of plosives.
There is evidence to suggest that forms transcribed as simultaneous or sequentially ordered oral and laryngeal gestures may in fact represent unreleased plosive forms.
The validity of this distinction has been demonstrated in detailed studies of disorders affecting voice onset time in plosives.
In a nine-minute conversational sample he found 206 words ending in voiceless plosives, of which 61 occurred in turn-final position and 145 in turn-medial position.
In this paper, a phonetic account of phonological plosive assibilation has been proposed as a case of a phonetically based phonological process.
Both cases involve a preceding alveolar nasal and a following bilabial plosive.
A range of consonants (although rarely plosives) was deleted.
On the other hand, affricates, like plosives, fail to pattern with fricatives on their right edge.
This pattern was consistent across all plosives for each child.
