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Plosives

  1. Usually single pulse in spectrogram and waveform
  2. Can be confused with glottal onset in vowels
  3. Contain areas of maximal activity
  4. Aspirated or not
  5. Voiced or not
  6. Bilabial rounding, alveolar flags, velar pinch

DEMO of closures and plosives

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Ed Kaiser
Sat Mar 15 00:01:27 PST 1997