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plosive

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plosive [′plō·siv]
(linguistics)
A primary type of speech sound of the major languages that is characterized by the complete interception of airflow at one or more places along the vocal tract. For example, the English words par, bar, tar, and car begin with plosives.


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His performance on Saturday follows impressive displays throughout the five match series when he has gone for less than three runs an over in the three matches despite taking the new ball and bowling to the ex plosive talents of Brendon McCullum.
Indo-European protolanguage is assumed to have had a complex plosive system with voice and aspiration oppositions.
As shown in this figure, the direction of the frequency shifts in the second formant frequencies (F2s) is important for the intelligibility of the plosive consonants /b/, /d/, and /g/.
 
 
 
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