Lisp
| Lisp | |
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| Specialty | Psychiatry  |
A lisp is a speech impediment, historically also known as sigmatism.[1] Stereotypically, people with a lisp are unable to pronounce sibilants (like the sound [[Voiceless alveolar fricative|[s]]]), and replace them with interdentals (like the sound [[Voiceless dental fricative|[θ]]]), though there are actually several kinds of lisp. "Interdental" lisping is produced when the tip of the tongue portrudes between the front teeth and "dentalised" lisping is produced when the tip of the tongue just touches the front teeth.
VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!
Finally there is the "palatal lisp" where the speaker attempts to make the sounds with the tongue in contact with the palate.[1]
Speakers of Latin American Spanish often think that speakers of Castilian Spanish speak with a Castilian lisp. This is because Castilians have separate phenomes /s/ and /θ/, whereas the seseo speakers in Andalucía and Latin America will pronounce both as [s]. A separate phenomenon, seen in parts of Andalucía, pronounces both as [θ]; this is called ceceo.
The interdental lisp is actually standard in the Turkmen language.
Notable people that had or have lisps include Thomas Jefferson (who preferred writing to public speaking partly because of this), Mike Tyson, Drew Barrymore, Jello Biafra, Campbell Brown, Sara Rue, Ric Flair, Morgan Webb, Keith Hernandez, Virgil "Dusty Rhodes" Runnels, Jr., Josh Lewin, and Nat King Cole (in his early career).[citation needed] John Adams also had a lisp in his later years, but this was because he refused to wear dentures [citation needed]. The biblical figure Moses is described as having "slow speech and a slow tongue" (Exodus 4:10), which is traditionally interpreted as a lisp, though others have believed it was a stutter or merely hesitancy. Winston Churchill had a slight lisp, which is often incorrectly said to have been a stutter [citation needed]. Bryan Murray, head coach of the Ottawa Senators has a strong lisp when he speaks words with the letter S [citation needed].
References
- ^ a b Bowen, Caroline. "Lisping - when /s/ and /z/ are hard to say". Retrieved 2006-03-07.