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Occlusives meaning
plural of occlusive
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Definition Nearly all nasal consonants are nasal occlusives, in which air escapes through the nose but not through the mouth, as it is blocked (occluded) by the lips or tongue.
Ladefoged and Maddieson (1996) prefer to restrict 'stop' to oral occlusives.
Nasal occlusives are nearly universal in human languages.
Nasal occlusives are somewhat similar.
See Common occlusives for the distribution of both stops and nasals.
Since nasal vowels are phonemic, it simplifies the picture somewhat to assume that nasalization in occlusives is allophonic.
The occlusives and affricates have a special aspirated series (transcribed with an apostrophe after the letter): p’, t’, c’, k’ (but č).
Voiceless nasals A few languages have phonemic voiceless nasal occlusives.