Articulatory acquisition in Kannada - a study of normal children-3 to 6.6 years

Abstract

One hundred and eighty school children in the age range of 3 to 6·6 years selected randomly from' four different schools of Mysore 'City, formed the subjects. They were administered the Diagnostic Kannada Articulation Test (Babu, R. N., Rathna, N., Bettagiri, R., 1972). The children were and divided into seven age groups of 6 months interval in each. The test was administered individually and it was scored on the basis of the frequency of occurrence  of phonelnes. The maximum score that could be obtained was 299.