The voiceless labial–alveolar plosive is a type of

consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...

al sound used in some

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s. It is a and pronounced simultaneously. The symbol in the

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that represents this sound is .

Features

Features of the voiceless labial–alveolar plosive are: * Its

place of articulation In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is an approximate location along the vocal tract where its production occurs. It is a point where a constriction is made between an active and a pa ...

is labial–alveolar, which means that it is simultaneously articulated with the front part of the

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against the

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and the

lips The lips are a horizontal pair of soft appendages attached to the jaws and are the most visible part of the mouth of many animals, including humans. Mammal lips are soft, movable and serve to facilitate the ingestion of food (e.g. sucklin ...

Occurrence

References

{{phonetics-stub Labial–coronal consonants Doubly articulated consonants Pulmonic consonants