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Sentences with OCCLUSIVES

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Sentences

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"Dental occlusives are sounds made by obstructing airflow with the articulators."
2
"In some languages, occlusives are called plosive consonants."
3
"Nasals and occlusives are both types of stop consonants."
4
"Some languages have clicking occlusives as speech sounds."
5
"In phonetics, occlusives are classified as consonants."
6
"Some sign languages also have manual occlusives."
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"Languages may have different patterns for the occurrence of occlusives."
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"Dental occlusives are a type of consonant that involve complete obstruction of the airflow."
2
"In English, the /p/, /t/, and /k/ sounds are all occlusives."
3
"Languages vary in the number and types of occlusives they have."
4
"The occlusives /b/, /d/, and /g/ are voiced counterparts of /p/, /t/, and /k/ respectively."
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"Voiced occlusives are produced with vibration of the vocal cords."
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"English distinguishes between voiceless and voiced occlusives, as in the pairs /p/ and /b/, /t/ and /d/, and /k/ and /g/."
7
"Many languages have ejective occlusives, in which the airstream is expelled from the glottis by a sharp movement of the larynx."
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"Stops or occlusives are one of the most common types of consonants in languages worldwide."
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