plosiven.adj.

1897 Mod. Lang. Notes 12 212/2 He says nothing of the peculiar treatment of French plosives without a breath-glide before vowels.

1909 D. Jones Pronunc. of Eng. 65 When we try to pronounce a breathed plosive, e.g. p, by itself, it is generally followed by a short breathed sound h.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vi. 97 Sounds formed in this way are stops (plosives, explosives), like our unvoiced [p, t, k] and our voiced [b, d, g].

1968 W. S. Allen Vox Graeca 2 If the speech-organs form a complete closure,..the resulting sound is termed a ‘stop’. Stops are further subdivided into ‘plosives’ and ‘affricates’.

1988 N. Lowndes Chekago iv. 184 She made the responses spiritedly, breathing in hard during the lulls between phrases to give full force to the plosives and sibilants which abounded in the chant.

1996 Appl. Linguistics 17 91 If the cut-off point is too low, the analyst may be confused by displays in which an apparent pause is in fact the stop phase of geminated plosives or other normal phenomena.

1902 E. W. Scripture Elements Exper. Phonetics xxix. 445 The Association Phonétique Internationale classifies and represents the consonants in the following way... Plosive, [etc.].

1909 D. Jones Pronunc. Eng. 65 The explosion of a plosive consonant is formed by the air as it rushes out at the instant when contact is released.

1932 G. E. Fuhrken Standard Eng. Speech vi. 63 By stopping the air-passage, as in the case of p and t, we get stops, generally called plosive consonants, though they may also occur as purely occlusive sounds.

1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 321 Of the three nonnasal types with plosive efflux, one is aspirated and the other two are nonaspirated.

1994 N. Holder Dead in Water xii. 144 Lips parted and air spluttered in a series of soundless, plosive chuckles.