Plosive sounds play an important role in linguistics.

This noise is interfering with my studies.

In phonetics, an obstruent is a sound that obstructs the airflow.

His voice echoed like a sonorant.

His Japanese pronunciation is very natural.

He couldn't pronounce the word correctly.

In phonetics, a medial refers to a sound that is positioned between vowels in a word.

He created a beautiful song using the eight tones.

I pray to Kannon every day.

My new ringtone is a Beatles song.