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.
Word-final plosives preceded by vowels are not deleted.
Feature economy in sound systems 305 include plosives and affricates.
This difference is related to the phonetic difference between audible plosive release and inaudible plosive closure.
Both of the successive bilingual children acquired voiced plosives before their voiceless counterparts.
This is not the case for voiceless plosives, however, and both aspirated and unaspirated voiceless plosives have an abducted glottis throughout oral closure.
The contrast between voiced and voiceless fricatives and plosives is neutralized in final position.
On the other hand, she uses glottal closure invariably before final voiceless plosives.
This pattern was consistent across all plosives for each child.
