plosive

• Consonne articulée par une fermeture complète du conduit vocal, suivie d'une libération brutale de l'air.

A consonant sound produced by completely stopping the airflow in the vocal tract and then releasing it with a burst of air.

1. Stop consonantC1formal

   A consonant sound produced by completely blocking the airflow in the vocal tract and then releasing it with a burst of air.

   Consonne occlusive

   • The sounds /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, and /g/ are all plosives in English.
   • Linguists study the articulation of plosives in different languages.
   • In phonetics, a plosive is also known as a stop consonant.

   Synonymesocclusiveplosive consonantstopstop consonant