Why are Tongue Twisters so Difficult to Pronounce?
November 24th, 2014
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Tongue twisters are words, phrases or sentences composed of similar consonantal sounds that make it difficult to articulate. For example, try reading some of these out loud three times as fast as you can:
Freshly fried fresh flesh.
A bloke’s back bike brake block broke.
The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders.
Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
You might remember doing some of these as a child as fun little games for kids to do at parties or in the lunchroom. However, from the perspective of a language researcher tongue twisters can actually help us understand how we produce language.
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