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a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
his stop consonants are too aspirated
How To Use plosive consonant In A Sentence
- Most of the time, we can differentiate between a “b” and a “p” sound over the phone, even though the audio cues that make the difference between these voiced on unvoiced plosive consonants live in the higher frequencies that are lost over phone circuits. 2009 December « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
- Fewer spoken words start with vowels, which provide more subtle acoustic cues than the more explosive consonant sounds.
- This translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into Fula includes implosive consonants.
- She misses opportunities to color the text, eviscerating the crisp, plosive consonants and long fruity vowels of the kind of seductive, excess and affective precision that would conform to the interpretive agenda of the period.
