In terms, of long - term effects, a child with a tongue tie may experience mild to severe speech issues, gap formation in teeth, and the inability to do
certain oral activities such as play a woodwind instrument.
For example, when one engages in an
activity of a
certain KS in a
certain context (like categorizing different types of trees) particular linguistic features associated with that KS are used: vocabulary in relation to types of trees (deciduous, coniferous), syntactic structures signaling taxonomic or part - whole relations (Y is a type of...), and discourse devices that connect sentences together to make the whole text —
oral or written — coherent in expressing the content meaning of how trees are categorized.