Table of Contents
91 relations: Affricate, Airstream mechanism, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Aspirated consonant, Australian Aboriginal languages, Breathy voice, Calque, Cambridge University Press, Cherokee, Classical Arabic, Classical Japanese, Click consonant, Continuant, Contour (linguistics), Coronal consonant, Creaky voice, Diacritic, Dnieper, Egressive sound, Ejective consonant, Epiglottal plosive, Estonian language, Fijian language, Fortis and lenis, Fricative, Gadsup language, Gemination, Glottal stop, Hawaiian language, Ian Maddieson, Implosive consonant, Ingressive sound, International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, International Phonetic Alphabet, International Phonetic Association, Iroquoian languages, Italian language, Japanese language, Korean language, Labial consonant, Latin, Malay language, Mandarin Chinese, Manner of articulation, Modifier letter, Mohawk language, Nasal consonant, Nasal release, Niihau, ... Expand index (41 more) »
- Manner of articulation
- Plosives
Affricate
An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). Plosive and affricate are manner of articulation.
Airstream mechanism
In phonetics, the airstream mechanism is the method by which airflow is created in the vocal tract.
See Plosive and Airstream mechanism
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Aspirated consonant
In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.
See Plosive and Aspirated consonant
Australian Aboriginal languages
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intelligible varieties) up to possibly 363.
See Plosive and Australian Aboriginal languages
Breathy voice
Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound.
Calque
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
See Plosive and Cambridge University Press
Cherokee
The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.
Classical Arabic
Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (the most eloquent classic Arabic) is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages onwards, having succeeded the Paleo-Arabic script.
See Plosive and Classical Arabic
Classical Japanese
The classical Japanese language (bungo, "literary language"), also called and sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese", is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–1989).
See Plosive and Classical Japanese
Click consonant
Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa.
See Plosive and Click consonant
Continuant
In phonetics, a continuant is a speech sound produced without a complete closure in the oral cavity.
Contour (linguistics)
In phonetics, contour describes speech sounds that behave as single segments but make an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
See Plosive and Contour (linguistics)
Coronal consonant
Coronals, denominated point-and-blade consonants prior, are consonants articulated with the flexible front part of the tongue.
See Plosive and Coronal consonant
Creaky voice
In linguistics, creaky voice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) refers to a low, scratchy sound that occupies the vocal range below the common vocal register.
Diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.
Dnieper
The Dnieper, also called Dnepr or Dnipro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.
Egressive sound
In human speech, egressive sounds are sounds in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
See Plosive and Egressive sound
Ejective consonant
In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream.
See Plosive and Ejective consonant
Epiglottal plosive
The epiglottal or pharyngeal plosive (or stop) is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. Plosive and epiglottal plosive are plosives.
See Plosive and Epiglottal plosive
Estonian language
Estonian (eesti keel) is a Finnic language of the Uralic family.
See Plosive and Estonian language
Fijian language
Fijian (Na vosa vaka-Viti) is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken by some 350,000–450,000 ethnic Fijians as a native language.
See Plosive and Fijian language
Fortis and lenis
In linguistics, fortis and lenis (and; Latin for "strong" and "weak"), sometimes identified with 'tense' and 'lax', are pronunciations of consonants with relatively greater and lesser energy, respectively.
See Plosive and Fortis and lenis
Fricative
A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. Plosive and fricative are manner of articulation.
Gadsup language
Gadsup is a Kainantu language spoken by the people of the same name in Papua New Guinea.
See Plosive and Gadsup language
Gemination
In phonetics and phonology, gemination (from Latin 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant.
Glottal stop
The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis. Plosive and glottal stop are plosives.
Hawaiian language
Hawaiian (Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
See Plosive and Hawaiian language
Ian Maddieson
Ian Maddieson (born September 1, 1942 in Watford, United Kingdom) is British-American linguist and professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, in the United States.
Implosive consonant
Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.
See Plosive and Implosive consonant
Ingressive sound
In phonetics, ingressive sounds are sounds by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose.
See Plosive and Ingressive sound
International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
The International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) is an international scholarly association devoted to the study of phonetics and linguistics in relation to speech disorders and language disorders.
See Plosive and International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
See Plosive and International Phonetic Alphabet
International Phonetic Association
The International Phonetic Association (IPA; Association phonétique internationale, API) is an organization that promotes the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science.
See Plosive and International Phonetic Association
Iroquoian languages
The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America.
See Plosive and Iroquoian languages
Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
See Plosive and Italian language
Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
See Plosive and Japanese language
Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
See Plosive and Korean language
Labial consonant
Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.
See Plosive and Labial consonant
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Malay language
Malay (Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.
See Plosive and Malay language
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
See Plosive and Mandarin Chinese
Manner of articulation
In articulatory phonetics, the manner of articulation is the configuration and interaction of the articulators (speech organs such as the tongue, lips, and palate) when making a speech sound.
See Plosive and Manner of articulation
Modifier letter
A modifier letter, in the Unicode Standard, is a letter or symbol typically written next to another letter that it modifies in some way.
See Plosive and Modifier letter
Mohawk language
Mohawk (Kanienʼkéha, " of the Flint Place") is an Iroquoian language currently spoken by around 3,500 people of the Mohawk nation, located primarily in current or former Haudenosaunee territories, predominately Canada (southern Ontario and Quebec), and to a lesser extent in the United States (western and northern New York).
See Plosive and Mohawk language
Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. Plosive and nasal consonant are manner of articulation.
See Plosive and Nasal consonant
Nasal release
In phonetics, a nasal release is the release of a stop consonant into a nasal.
Niihau
Niihau (Hawaiian), anglicized as Niihau, is the westernmost main and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaii.
No audible release
A stop with no audible release, also known as an unreleased stop or an applosive, is a stop consonant with no release burst: no audible indication of the end of its occlusion (hold). Plosive and no audible release are plosives.
See Plosive and No audible release
Nonexplosive stop
In phonetics and phonology, nonexplosive stops are posited class of non-pulmonic ("non-obstruent") stop consonants that lack the pressure build-up and burst release associated with pulmonic stops, but also the laryngeal lowering of implosive stops. Plosive and nonexplosive stop are plosives.
See Plosive and Nonexplosive stop
Obstruent
An obstruent is a speech sound such as,, or that is formed by obstructing airflow.
Occlusive
In phonetics, an occlusive, sometimes known as a stop, is a consonant sound produced by occluding (i.e. blocking) airflow in the vocal tract, but not necessarily in the nasal tract.
Oral consonant
An oral consonant is a consonant sound in speech that is made by allowing air to escape from the mouth, as opposed to the nose, as in a nasal consonant. Plosive and oral consonant are manner of articulation.
See Plosive and Oral consonant
Peter Ladefoged
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged (17 September 1925 – 24 January 2006) was a British linguist and phonetician.
See Plosive and Peter Ladefoged
Phonation
The term phonation has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics.
Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.
Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.
Pop filter
A pop filter, pop shield or pop screen is a noise protection filter for microphones, typically used in a recording studio.
Prenasalized consonant
Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent (or occasionally a non-nasal sonorant) that behave phonologically like single consonants.
See Plosive and Prenasalized consonant
Proto-Celtic language
Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European.
See Plosive and Proto-Celtic language
Pulmonic consonant
A pulmonic consonant is a consonant produced by air pressure from the lungs, as opposed to ejective, implosive and click consonants.
See Plosive and Pulmonic consonant
Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
See Plosive and Russian language
Samoan language
Samoan (Gagana faa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands.
See Plosive and Samoan language
SIL International
SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development.
See Plosive and SIL International
Slack voice
Slack voice (or lax voice) is the pronunciation of consonant or vowels with a glottal opening slightly wider than that occurring in modal voice.
Soft palate
The soft palate (also known as the velum, palatal velum, or muscular palate) is, in mammals, the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth.
Sonorant
In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages. Plosive and sonorant are manner of articulation.
Stiff voice
The term stiff voice describes the pronunciation of consonants or vowels with a glottal opening narrower, and the vocal folds stiffer, than occurs in modal voice.
Swahili language
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands).
See Plosive and Swahili language
Tenuis consonant
In linguistics, a tenuis consonant is an obstruent that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized.
See Plosive and Tenuis consonant
Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").
See Plosive and Velar consonant
Vietnamese language
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.
See Plosive and Vietnamese language
Vocal cords
In humans, the vocal cords, also known as vocal folds, are folds of throat tissues that are key in creating sounds through vocalization.
Voice (phonetics)
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).
See Plosive and Voice (phonetics)
Voice onset time
In phonetics, voice onset time (VOT) is a feature of the production of stop consonants.
See Plosive and Voice onset time
Voiced bilabial plosive
The voiced bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.
See Plosive and Voiced bilabial plosive
Voiced palatal plosive
The voiced palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound in some spoken languages. Plosive and voiced palatal plosive are plosives.
See Plosive and Voiced palatal plosive
Voiced retroflex plosive
The voiced retroflex plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. Plosive and voiced retroflex plosive are plosives.
See Plosive and Voiced retroflex plosive
Voiced uvular plosive
The voiced uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
See Plosive and Voiced uvular plosive
Voiced velar plosive
The voiced velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. Plosive and voiced velar plosive are plosives.
See Plosive and Voiced velar plosive
Voiceless bilabial plosive
The voiceless bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in most spoken languages.
See Plosive and Voiceless bilabial plosive
Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives
The voiceless alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages.
See Plosive and Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives
Voiceless palatal plosive
The voiceless palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in some vocal languages.
See Plosive and Voiceless palatal plosive
Voiceless retroflex plosive
The voiceless retroflex plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
See Plosive and Voiceless retroflex plosive
Voiceless uvular plosive
The voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
See Plosive and Voiceless uvular plosive
Voiceless velar plosive
The voiceless velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages.
See Plosive and Voiceless velar plosive
Voicelessness
In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.
Yanyuwa language
Yanyuwa is the language of the Yanyuwa people of the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria outside Borroloola (Burrulula) in the Northern Territory, Australia.
See Plosive and Yanyuwa language
Yidiny language
Yidiny (also spelled Yidiɲ, Yidiñ, Jidinj, Jidinʲ, Yidinʸ, Yidiń) is a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language, spoken by the Yidinji people of north-east Queensland.
See Plosive and Yidiny language
See also
Manner of articulation
- Affricate
- Approximant
- Continuants
- Fricative
- Manner of articulation
- Nasal consonant
- Oral consonant
- Plosive
- Semivowel
- Sibilant
- Sonorant
- Sonorants
- Tap and flap consonants
- Trill consonant
- Voiceless consonants
- Vowel
Plosives
- Alveolar stop
- Bilabial stops
- Coronal stop
- Dental stop
- Epiglottal plosive
- Glottal stop
- No audible release
- Nonexplosive stop
- Palatal stop
- Plosive
- Pre-stopped consonant
- Saltillo (linguistics)
- Uvular stop
- Velar stop
- Voiced dental and alveolar plosives
- Voiced labial–velar plosive
- Voiced labiodental plosive
- Voiced linguolabial plosive
- Voiced palatal plosive
- Voiced retroflex plosive
- Voiced upper-pharyngeal plosive
- Voiced velar plosive
References
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