Tongue twisters are a brain-bending, mind-boggling, nail-biting test of your articulation skills. A cheeky alliteration here, a slippery consonant there, or even a tooth-chattering dental fricative ...

You might think children's tongue twisters are just a fun little game, but they’re actually a clever way to help your child build language skills while keeping things playful and engaging – perfect ...

It’s a question that has plagued English speakers for many decades: “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” To help with this, Greenwell, a College of Health and Human ...

As adults, it’s easy to forget how complicated speech really is, especially when you’re first learning it. Not only do small children have to figure out things like grammar and vocabulary but they’ve ...

From the earliest coos to reciting Shakespearean sonnets, language comes in all forms — and there is always room to sharpen it. Want to put your verbal finesse to the test? Enter: tongue twisters. A ...

According to speech communication scientists from MIT, "pad kid poured curd pulled cod" is the most difficult phrase to spit out. Give it a try. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

New research on the neuroscience of tongue twisters—and stuttering—offers many insights into brain function and connectivity. Both tongue twisters and stuttering open windows into the brain's ...

If you’ve ever been caught off guard by the hilariously cute things kids say by mistake, you know grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation mistakes can heighten the humor. But if the little ones in your ...