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Definition of Stop consonant
1. Noun. A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it. "His stop consonants are too aspirated"
Generic synonyms: Obstruent
Terms within: Implosion, Explosion, Plosion
Specialized synonyms: Labial Stop, Glottal Catch, Glottal Plosive, Glottal Stop, Click, Suction Stop
Derivative terms: Occlusive
Antonyms: Continuant Consonant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stop Consonant
Literary usage of Stop consonant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"The process of passing from a back or even perhaps a root-stop consonant to a
point-teeth stop + a blade-point-open (which is practically what the above ..."
2. The Pronunciation of Standard English in America by George Philip Krapp (1919)
"... the back, which we may observe as being elevated to form the stoppage producing
the initial consonant, a voiceless stop consonant, in call [koil]; ..."
3. The Pronunciation of Standard English in America by George Philip Krapp (1919)
"... the back, which we may observe as being elevated to form the stoppage producing
the initial consonant, a voiceless stop consonant, in call [kail]; ..."
4. Contributions to the History of the English Gutturals Sounds by Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1899)
"The process of passing from a back or even perhaps a root-stop consonant to a
point-teeth stop + a blade-point-open (which is practically what the above ..."
5. Contributions to the Study of Elliptical Words in Modern English by Karl Sundén (1904)
"... but it is unnecessary to assume that the latter owes its final stop-consonant
to the former, since Elizabeth, which is met with already in ME.3, could, ..."
6. Modern English: Its Growth and Present Use by George Philip Krapp (1909)
"In the first case, when the column of air is completely stopped, the consonant
produced is called a stop consonant or explosive, both names being ..."
7. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"Thus the ' lip-stop' consonant (p) is formed by bringing the lips together so as
completely to stop the passage of air. VOWELS. 654. ..."
8. A Middle English Reader by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1915)
"A stop consonant is frequently added finally in word or syllable after a continuant,
the kind of stop depending upon the preceding, and its voiceless or ..."
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