NORMAL PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN THE ACQU ISITION OF TURKISH

The purpose of this study was to examine the phonological processes in the acquisition of Turkish. The sample of this descriptive research c onsisted of 20 children with normal phonological development between 2 and 6 years of age who attended kindergarten. Responses of the childr en to the picture-naming task that consisted of 107 pictures were used for phonological process analysis. However, if disagreement occurred about the choice of the process used, the spontaneous speech samples, were also examined to determine the process. The Percentage Consonants Correct (Shriberg and Kwiatkowski, 1982) was used as the severity cri terion to identify those children with normal phonological development . Results showed that a clear relationship exists between age and the number of processes used. The findings of this research are discussed in terms of the processes used in different age groups.