lisping's Usage Examples:

Structural irregularities of the tongue, palate, or teeth (including abnormalities in the number or position of the teeth) may be implicated in lisping, but they generally are not the main causes.

As a functional speech disorder, lisping has no clear known cause.

Functional speech disorders with no known cause, such as lisping, affect 10 percent of the population; 8-9 percent serious enough to require treatment.

Lisping is a speech disorder characterized by the inability to correctly pronounce the sounds of s or z, known as the sibilant consonants.

Jamie Oliver and his lisping, mockney screen presence has carried him from speech impediment obscurity, to movie star celebrity status.

Lisping is also associated with immature development.

These are all classified as lisping and include excessive pressure by the tongue against the teeth, the tongue held too far back along the midline of the palate, and a "substitute hiss" produced in the throat or larynx.

Lisping is, therefore, sometimes called a developmental phonetic disorder.

The change, however, came too late; Firdousi, now a broken and decrepit old man, had in the meanwhile returned to Tus, and, while wandering through the streets of his native town, heard a child lisping a verse from his own satire in which he taunts Mahmud with his slavish birth: "Had Mahmud's father been what he is now A crown of gold had decked this aged brow; Had Mahmud's mother been of gentle blood, In heaps of silver knee-deep had I stood."

And now, my friends, please to excuse My lisping and my stammers; I, for this once, have done my best, And so--I'll make my manners.

Synonyms:

list-processing language, programing language, programming language,

Antonyms:

stratified language, one-dimensional language, unstratified language, natural language,