applosive

English

Etymology

a- +‎ plosive

Noun

applosive (plural applosives)

  1. (phonology) An unreleased plosive, denoted ◌̚ in the IPA.
    • 1983, Peter F. MacNeilage, editor, The Production of Speech‎, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN:
      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).

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