plosive vs syncope

plosive

noun
  • Sound produced from opening a previously closed oral passage. 

adj
  • Produced from opening a previously closed oral passage. 

syncope

noun
  • The loss or elision of a sound, from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable. 

  • A loss of consciousness when someone faints. 

  • A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation. 

How often have the words plosive and syncope occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )