PLOSIVES

This unit is about English plosives. It refers six plosive consonants sound as /p,t,k,g,d/ and one consonant that produce in glottal place h ,but the plosive consonants have different place of articulation. For example, /b,p/ sounds are bilabial. Besides, “all six plosives consonants sounds occur at the beginning of a vowel (initial position), between other sound (medial position), and at the end of a word (final position)”. For example,

Initial position---CV= put

Medial position---VCV=apple

Final position---VC= up 

References:

Peter  Roach, English Phoentics and Phonology, Cambridge University, New York, fourth edition,2009