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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a consonant in which airflow is blocked entirely at some point in the vocal tract, forming a complete stricture. Plosives may be pulmonic or glottalic egressive.

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Plosive

Nodes85
Edges84
Triples91
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023529
Components1

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Plosive

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related to Common plosives · 20
Plosive → All, Arabic, Cherokee, Classical Arabic, Classical Japanese, Colloquial Samoan, Formal Samoan, Hawaiian, However, In, Iroquoian, It, Mohawk, Niʻihau Hawaiian, North American, Ontena Gadsup, Proto-Celtic, Samoan, Standard Hawaiian, Yanyuwa
related to Terminology · 12
Plosive → Either, International Clinical Phonetics, Ladefoged, Linguistics Association, Linguists, Maddieson, Some, Stop, That, The, The International Phonetic Association, They
related to Length · 11
Plosive → Arabic, English Victoria, Estonian, However, Icelandic, Ilwana, In, Italian, Japanese, There, Vittoria
related to Aspiration · 8
Plosive → English, Highly, In, In English, Initial, The, VOT, When
related to Voice · 8
Plosive → Australian, Hawaiian, Mandarin Chinese, Others, Plosives, Voiced, Yanyuwa, Yidiny
related to External links · 7
Plosive → Basel, Bibliotheca Phonetica, Karger, Rothenberg, Simple-Released Plosive Production, The Breath-Stream Dynamics, Vol
related to Nasalization · 7
Plosive → English, Fijian, Nasals, Simple, South Pacific, Swahili, The
related to Tenseness · 6
Plosive → However, IPA, Korean, Other, The, There
related to Airstream mechanism · 4
Plosive → All, Some, Stops, The
related to Transcription · 2
Plosive → IPA, The

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Important terminology

plosives may voiceless languages release nasals occlusion english voiced stops vocal voice stop occlusive airflow term used consonants aspiration aspirated

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
theinstance ofThe closest examples in English are consonant clusters0.80text
Plosiverelated to Airstream mechanismStops0.60section
Plosiverelated to Airstream mechanismThe0.60section
Plosiverelated to Airstream mechanismAll0.60section
Plosiverelated to Airstream mechanismSome0.60section
Plosiverelated to ArticulationApproach0.60section
Plosiverelated to AspirationIn0.60section
Plosiverelated to AspirationThe0.60section
Plosiverelated to AspirationVOT0.60section
Plosiverelated to AspirationHighly0.60section
Plosiverelated to AspirationIn English0.60section
Plosiverelated to AspirationEnglish0.60section

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