Voiced Alveolar Plosive

IPA - Unicode>
align="center" style="font-size: 24px"|
IPA - image align="center"|
X-SAMPA align="center"|d
Kirshenbaum align="center"|d
colspan="2"|Sound sample
The voiced alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d. The voiced alveolar plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound represented by "d" in dog and bombed. Features of this consonant:

Varieties of d

IPA !! Description
style="font-size:24px" align="center"| plain d
style="font-size:24px" align="center"| or aspirated or breathy voice d
style="font-size:24px" align="center"| palatalized d
style="font-size:24px" align="center"| labialized d
style="font-size:24px" align="center"| unreleased d
style="font-size:24px" align="center"| voiceless d

In English

In English, /d/ is denoted by the letter "d". However, in modern English, the letter "d" does not always denote /d/. In the past participle of verbs ending in a voiceless consonant (e.g. washed), "d" is pronounced /t/.

In other languages

The d sound is a common sound cross-linguistically. Many languages have at least a plain d, and some distinguish more than one variety. In many languages, like English, the letter d is used to represent the d sound in spellings of words.

 

<< PreviousWord BrowserNext >>
democratic party (uk)
alfred wallis
ceratiola
hecke operator
xavier university (cincinnati)
hydraulic engineering
oroshi hocho
sky & telescope
james alexander murray
scottish socialist alliance
sahti
morgunblai
homebrew
lotus 340r
james boyle uniacke
wcco
landsmannschaft westpreuen
treaty of aigun
sodium hydride
whole body painting
diefenbunker
american international group
list of jazz organists
acetylide anion
scots vowel length rule
voiced bilabial plosive
bukoba
center of mass coordinates
nerchinsk treaty
toluenesulfonyl
voiceless dental plosive
eligiusz niewiadomski
dynasties in chinese history
radon measure
soichiro hoshi
sneakernet
anti social
hiram blanchard
wieselburg
alpinia
post oak
head marking language
dependent marking language
nierstein oppenheim