“Why does the letter "L" affect your tongue more?”
I am a 34 year old male. I want to know why does the letter "L" affect your tongue more?
4 Answers
SpeechPathologistsSpeechLanguagePathologist
"l" is made by elevating your tongue
It is not correct to say that /l/ affects the tongue more. A lot of sounds affect the tongue. It is in the nature of the acoustic effect that is needed for that sound and the tongue and other structures move to create that particular acoustics is created
Terlenda Lassiter
Speech-Language Pathologist
Affect your tongue more than one? Compared with what other consonants are you referring? There's not one general letter that literally everyone has affected in their tongue more at the same time.
Karen Young
Jupiter, FL
Hello. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by the letter /L/ affecting your tongue more. However, this sound is what we call a "lingual" sound- which means it is produced with your tongue pressing against the back of your front, top teeth, whereas /f/ is pronounced primarily with your teeth and bottom lip and /b/ is pronounced with both lips, for example. If you can be more specific, I'd love to answer more clearly.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
