Word: alveolares
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...tongue placed near to or against the back of the upper front teeth. No matter what a dentist does in fitting new plates, he is unlikely to interfere with this process. But patients with English as their native language hold the tongue higher - against the alveolar ridge just behind the base of the upper front teeth - to make the same sounds. And that is precisely where the average dentist making an upper plate puts part of the denture base. Result: the English-language patient's tongue hits a foreign object right behind the alveolar ridge and doesn...
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