Children and rhotacism (inability to produce the "r" sound)

[Bona Botse]

Heh, I get hiccups from cold carbonated drinks. Has to be both cold and carbonated, no hiccups if it's one or the other.

 

[HavocXphere]

For example: "I really want to dress, eat bread and then run down the road" would become: "I healy want to dthess, eat bthead and thun down the thoad".

Ah...family member had something similar (couldn't pronounce a sharp "c" like crate)...I *think* it was related to low muscle tone. Specific sounds require the tongue etc to do specific things, so like a weak person lifting a heavy object they just physically can't do it regardless of mindset...but muscles can be trained. Chances are good she get rid of it on her own but I'd go to a speech therapist anyway just for good measure. Not something you need to lose sleep over but I'd suggest you invest a bit of coin.

Not an expert by any stretch though...the above is very pseudo sciencey until a speech therapist says the same.

 

[Space_Chief]

Japanese have trouble pronouncing Rs too. It's cute how the girls say, "I alive" when they mean "I arrive".

 

[SauRoNZA]

Nothing speech therapy can't fix really.

At least to some degree.

I couldn't say "S" as a child.

Don't think I would panic at 4 years old though.

 

[M@gn3t1c]

My nephew cant say "k". A car is a tar for him. Almost 2 years old, sure he will grow out of it. Still hilarious sometimes.

 

[maumau]

Th-fronting
Or for those that have it V-Fronting

Hilarious. Did you go on to read sbout t-glottalisation?

 

[Hamster]

My nephew cant say "k". A car is a tar for him. Almost 2 years old, sure he will grow out of it. Still hilarious sometimes.

Your nephew is broken.

They made me do some exercises when I was little, like saying "te-dein" (Afrikaans) over and over as fast as I can. Eventually it became trein/train.

 

[Arthur]

My nephew cant say "k". A car is a tar for him. Almost 2 years old, sure he will grow out of it. Still hilarious sometimes.

I have a cousin with the same quirk, but it lasted into her late teens. "The tat drints the milt" is still a remembered phrase in family lore.

Your nephew is broken.

They made me do some exercises when I was little, like saying "te-dein" (Afrikaans) over and over as fast as I can. Eventually it became trein/train.

Another fave is to say "padda padda padda" faster and faster.