31. As in English, unvoiced plosives are breathed and voiced plosives are not. 32. The plosives have a voicing contrast primarily found in word-initial position. 33. What really tripped me up here were the voiced plosives and the nasals. 34. The plosive and double pronunciations were indicated by the " dagesh ". 35. The plosives have voiced allophones in predictable contexts. 36. Nasal plus plosive offsets lose the plosive element in Tok Pisin e . g. 37. Nasal plus plosive offsets lose the plosive element in Tok Pisin e . g. 38. The voiced plosive / b / is mainly in contrast with / f /. 39. The glottal plosive is typically written with an, or frequently with an apostrophe. 40. Perhaps as recently as the late 19th century, the nasals became voiced plosives .
