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  2. Epiglottal plosive - Wikipedia

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    The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʡ . Epiglottal and pharyngeal consonants occur at the same place of articulation. Esling (2010) describes the sound covered by the term "epiglottal plosive" as an "active closure by the aryepiglottic pharyngeal stricture mechanism" – that is, a stop produced by ...

  3. Glottal stop - Wikipedia

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    The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʔ .

  4. Plosive - Wikipedia

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    what we call simply nasals are called nasal stops by some linguists. We avoid this phrase, preferring to reserve the term 'stop' for sounds in which there is a complete interruption of airflow. In addition, they restrict "plosive" for pulmonic consonants; "stops" in their usage include ejective and implosive consonants. [2]

  5. Voiceless uvular plosive - Wikipedia

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    The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is q , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is q. There is also the voiceless pre-uvular plosive [ 1 ] in some languages, which is articulated slightly more front compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical uvular consonant, though not as front as the ...

  6. Voice (phonetics) - Wikipedia

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    The two sounds are transcribed as [s] and [z] to distinguish them from the English letters, which have several possible pronunciations, depending on the context. If one places the fingers on the voice box (i.e., the location of the Adam's apple in the upper throat), one can feel a vibration while [z] is pronounced but not with [s].

  7. Voiceless uvular–epiglottal plosive - Wikipedia

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    Features of the voiceless uvular-epiglottal plosive are: Its manner of articulation is occlusive, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract.. Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet, the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a pl

  8. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the phonetic realization of English sounds (mostly vowels) in various dialects. Let's pick some grapes for Betty should be transcribed /lɛts ˈpɪk səm ˈɡreɪps fər ˈbɛti/ regardless of the variety of English and everyone should interpret that transcription according to their own dialect.

  9. Voiceless velar fricative - Wikipedia

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    This sound change is part of Grimm's law. In Modern Greek, the voiceless velar fricative (with its allophone, the voiceless palatal fricative , occurring before front vowels) originated from the Ancient Greek voiceless aspirated stop /kʰ/ in a sound change that lenited Greek aspirated stops into fricatives.