ABSTRACT
The affricates are produced with the tongue tip making contact with the palatoalveolar region of the roof of the mouth. Complete blocking of the airflow, as for the stops, is followed by release of the air through a narrow space like the fricatives. The sounds ‘ch’ and ‘j’ develop gradually in typically developing children and are pronounced differently at earlier and later ages. Children often ‘stop’ the affricates earlier in development. Children commonly use the pattern of context sensitive voicing in combination with stopping. Other error patterns also affect affricates. These include deaffrication, where the sounds ‘ch’ and ‘j’ are produced as fricatives. Sometimes the fricative is fronted to the alveolar place of articulation. The affricates might be produced in simplified forms until the age of five. Early in development they might be stopped. This chapter details specific activities to increase awareness of affricates in words.
