Stop

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Speech sound classified according to its manner of articulation, in which at least one closure is formed with the glottis or in the oral cavity: (a) glottal stop ; (b) nasals² [m], [n]; (c) plosives¹ [p], [t], [b], [d]; (d) implosives¹ , ; (e) ejectives [p’]; (f) clicks , . A plosive in which the stop is formed orally and released without friction is called an explosive sound. If the oral release occurs during the formation of non-nasal oral stops (in the cases of (c)-(f)) with friction, then they are called affricates.

An oral double stop is present in , as in Yoruba ‘thank you.’ Subclasses of stops involve labialization, palatalization, velarization, pharyngealization ( secondary articulation), aspiration, nasalization ( nasal harmony), glottalization. Further classificatory features are phonation, articulators, and places of articulation. The use of the term stop is not uniform: at times it refers to (a)—(f), but not (b); at times only to (a) and (c); at times only to (c). ( also articulatory phonetics)

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