Tongue twisters are phrases or sentences that are difficult to pronounce. ... Vowels are of two types — those made with an open mouth such as 'o', ...

Forget Peter and his peppers, and Sally and her seashells. Researchers at MIT claim they have found the twistiest tongue twister in the English language: "Pad kid poured curd pulled cod ...

The key with tongue twisters as diction exercises is to only speed up once you’re in control of the words and to go faster and faster until you master them at all speeds. 4. Practice vowels and ...

Shattuck-Hufnagel plans to present the tongue-tripping line along with her research into “alternating repetitive tongue twisters” at the 166th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America ...

Why tongue twisters are so hard to say: ... In so-called spoonerisms, we often mix up two consonants, or two vowels, but hardly ever do people mistakenly swap consonants for vowels.

Two word tongue twisters caused more 't'kop' type errors, while sentences produced more 'tah-kop' mistakes that included a short vowel after the initial consonant.

Tongue Twisters; Tongue Twisters. 4 minute read. CHARLES P. WALLACE Berlin. August 15, ... while ss will follow short vowels; so it’s ich wei (I know) but ich wusste (I knew). Alles klar?

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Vowels split into two groups: those that require rounded lips or not ('oo' versus 'aa'). “This implies that tongue twisters are hard because the representations in the brain greatly overlap ...