Plosive consonants

Plosive consonants

1. Features

   • Produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract
   • Mainly produced in these places
     • Lips
     • Aveolar ridge
     • Velar region

2. Voiced Plosives

   • /b/
     • Bilabial stop
   • /d/
     • Alveolar stop
     • Alveolar tap
   • /g/
     • Velar stop

3. Voiceless Plosives

   • /p/
     • Aspirated
     • Unaspirated
     • Unreleased
   • /k/
     • Aspirated
       • Velar stop
     • Unaspirated
       • Velar stop
     • Unreleased
       • Velar stop
   • /t/
     • Aspirated
       • Alveolar stop
     • Unaspirated
       • Alveolar stop
     • Unreleased
       • Alveolar
     • Unaspirated
       • Alveolar tap