miércoles, 30 de mayo de 2012

CHAPTER 4.1 - Plosives


English has six plosive consonants (p, t, k, b, d, g) that have different places of articulation. Examining their manner of articulation there is a description of how they are produced. P and b are bilabial because they are created pressing the lips together; t and d are alveolar because to produce it we need to press the tongue blade against the alveolar ridge; k and g are velar because we need to touch our hard palate with the back of our tongue.


“All six plosives can occur at initial, medial or final position” (Roach, 2009). In initial positions we can listen an audible plosion of sound due to the strong quality of the plosive at this state. Plosives require of aspiration that is commonly described as the period in speech when the air escapes through the vocal folds through in the post-release phase. Medial and final positions are marked by a dependable factor that indicates the strength of the preceded or the following syllables to make the plosive accented or not.

have found a very useful video to complete what we already know about stops or plosives. It is a video about glottal stops leaded by the recognized professor called JenniferESL (online name) 

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