Consonants. Plosive Sounds The Plosives:

/p/- push, Pin, Pat, Pop

/b/- bush, bin, bat, ball

/k/-Cold, coat, coal

/g/-gold, goat, goal

/t/-tall, tusk, town

/d/-doll, dawn, down

All six plosives can occur at:

Initial Position: CV (Consonant-vowel) Medial Position: VCV (Between vowels) Final Position: VC (following vowels)

Phases in all Plosives sounds:

Closing phase: the articulator move to form the strictureCompression phase: the compressed air is stopped from escapingRelease phase: the articulator used to form the stricture are move to so as to let the air escape.Post-released phase: this is what happens immediately after the third phase (explosion sounds)

Alveolar Plosives- /t/- /d/ Plosives is a consonant sound such as /t/ or /d/ made by stopping the air completely and then suddenly letting out of the mouth.

Alveolar is a consonant sound such as /t/ or /d/ made by putting the tip of the tongue on the hard bony area (alveolar ridge) at the top of the mouth just behind the upper front teeth.

They can be:-Voiced or lenis-Unvoiced or Fortis

/t/ is unvoiced or Fortis

For example, “to, hotter, hat, teacher, type, doubt, tick, bought goat”

/d/ is unvoiced or lenis at the end of a word

As in for example, “do, had, harder, Dan, changed, bored, guard”

ASPIRATION RULEOccurs in all unvoiced plosives sounds, such as /p/ -/t/ -/k/ which are at initial position followed by a strong vowel.

As in for example, “public, Kevin, Tomas, people, common, totally”