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Patterns Of Dyslalia In Mandarin Speakers, Baii-Jia Yang, Shiang-Jiun Lai, Wen-Ling Liao
Patterns Of Dyslalia In Mandarin Speakers, Baii-Jia Yang, Shiang-Jiun Lai, Wen-Ling Liao
Rehabilitation Practice and Science
Four types of dyslalia-substitution, omission, distortion and addition, are common in English speakers.The purpose of our study is to find the characteristics of dyslalia in Mandarin speakers. The past two years, there were 74 dyslalic patients of which 57 were males and 17 were females. Their ages ranged from 4years to 23 years. Detailed examinations and tape records were taken. The results revealed that substitution was the most common type of dyslalia. Omission was the second one. Distortion was less common than omission and was always found in combination with one of the other types of dyslalia. Addition was not …