applosive
nounUK /əˈpləʊ.sɪv/ · US /əˈploʊ.sɪv/
Etymology From a- + plosive.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonology, Sciences An unreleased plosive, denoted ◌̚ in the IPA.
- Our recent fiber-optic studies on applosives (unreleased plosives) in the word-final position in Fukienese, a dialect of southern China, revealed interesting findings on larygeneal adjustment (Iwata et al., 1979).1983, Peter F. MacNeilage, editor, The Production of Speech, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN: