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Voiced Alveolar Plosive IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|d | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|d | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The voiced alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d. The voiced alveolar plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound represented by "d" in dog and bombed. Features of this consonant: Varieties of d | IPA !! Description | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | plain d | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| or | aspirated or breathy voice d | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | palatalized d | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | labialized d | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | unreleased d | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | voiceless d | In English, /d/ is denoted by the letter "d". However, in modern English, the letter "d" does not always denote /d/. In the past participle of verbs ending in a voiceless consonant (e.g. washed), "d" is pronounced /t/. In other languages The d sound is a common sound cross-linguistically. Many languages have at least a plain d, and some distinguish more than one variety. In many languages, like English, the letter d is used to represent the d sound in spellings of words.
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