stop consonant

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Noun

stop consonant - a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"

occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop

obstruent - a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth

implosion - the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant

plosion, explosion - the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant

labial stop - a stop consonant that is produced with the lips

glottal catch, glottal plosive, glottal stop - a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis; as in the sudden onset of a vowel

suction stop, click - a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)

continuant, continuant consonant - consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract

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As most improvement was found for stop consonant discrimination and as the F2 trajectory is the primary cue contrast, it is likely that recipients were better able to track F2 after training.

Melodic contour training and its effect on speech in noise, consonant discrimination, and prosody perception for cochlear implant recipients

In Figure 1, the left spectrogram shows a typical sound spectrum of a stop consonant in normal subjects.

Measurement of voice onset time in maxillectomy patients

Variation in stop consonant voicing in two regional varieties of American English.

Perceptual and acoustical speech analyses on articulatory disordered children with desonorization/Avaliacoes acustica e perceptiva de fala nos processos de dessonorizacao de obstruintes

This primarily concerned closed syllables which started with a stop consonant and were therefore too strong.

Finnic stop gradation as an effect of mora sharing

Effect of a single-channel wide dynamic range compression circuit on perception of stop consonant place of articulation.

Acclimatization in wide dynamic range multichannel compression and linear amplification hearing aids

Clusters that have the nasal/n/and a stop consonant seemed to be reduced more frequently.

Phonological features exhibited by children speaking African American English at three grade levels

Two of the initial phoneme variables, stop consonant and vowel, did correlate significantly with the dependent variable, so these were included in a regression analysis that also included the six lexical variables.