The Statistical Study on the Patients with Functional Articulation Disorders - Centering on the Background Information and Phonological Processes of Errors -

단순 조음장애 환자군에 대한 통계적 연구 - 배경정보와 조음 오류 양상을 중심으로 -

With the 130 patients who were diagnosed as functional articulation disorders with no physical problems, statistical study was performed to investigate their background informations and phonological processes of errors. The results are as followings : (1) Males showed higher prevalence than females, and 5-year-patients showed the highest in age. (2) Most patients showed errol.s of 2 - 5 phonemes (3) The most frequent errors were found in plosives and alveoalrs, and the most frequent phonological process of errors in the aspects of manner and place of articulation were stop-assimilations and alveolar assimilations, respectively.